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Zero Hydra Failures towards 26.05 NixOS release

NixOS-26.05 is around the corner! The schedule says it should happen around 25 May. Today the release process entered ZHF phase. There most packages with build failures are expected to be addresses by the release date. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/516381 contains detailed step-by-step to identify interesting packages. This time nixpkgs is full of build failures related to gcc-15 changes ( -std=gnu23 switch). An example package fix I usually try to fix at least one package during ZHF . Let’s do it again. I picked ior package. hydra says it is broken since January 2026. Most recent ht

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Five years on NixOS

Another yer, another instance of my NixOS journey log ( 2025 instance ). System maintenance As usual I don’t remember what I did to my system over the past year, so I’m at the git log for /etc/nixos as it contains all the changes: I had to switch nix GC job from monthly runs to weekly runs: a month is enough to generate so much garbage that individual GC runs are too painful. follow rename of linuxPackages.perf -> perf temporary revert to older nix to avoid CA-derivation regression follow services.resolved.extraConfig -> services.resolved.settings move temporary revert to older nix to avoid an

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My NixOS dev machine

I have a home server that I built primarily for “cloud” gaming (read more about that here ). I’m running Proxmox so I can install other services, one of which is my notes machine. After many years of experimentation, I’ve landed on a system that I like: I ssh notes@notes which drops me directly into nvim -c VimwikiMakeDiaryNote and disconnects on close. It’s a very lightweight version of an SSH app, which I’m starting to realize I like quite a bit.

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