Table of Contents

• nix
• flakes
• nixos
• home-manager
• hydra (build system)
• Fun Stuff

the biggest hurdle in getting into nix is having the revelvant documentation available.
This page is just another collection of useful resources to support success.

nix

nix the language

nixhub
https://www.nixhub.io/packages/mysql

newer documentation
https://nix.dev/

nix-search-cli
https://github.com/peterldowns/nix-search-cli

nix-pills: Interesting information if you want to know how nix works. A little dated.
https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills

nix packge versions - https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/

• unstable https://lazamar.co.uk/nix-versions/?channel=nixpkgs-unstable&package=hugo
  nix package versions can be useful for finding the commit where a particular version
  of a package exists.

nix channel status is at https://status.nixos.org/

flakes

nixos

package search
https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=firefox

option search
https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=firefox

wiki
https://nixos.wiki/

Search the NUR (Nix User Repositories)
https://nur.nix-community.org/

home-manager

option search
https://mipmip.github.io/home-manager-option-search/

hydra (build system)

hydra is the build system for nix and nixos

watch when a github pr lands in a channel
https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=268800

reproducible builds
https://reproducible.nixos.org/

Fun Stuff

package stats
https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique