A NixOS user documented a multi-day effort to reduce the operating system's memory footprint, getting it to idle at roughly 96MB and complete a full rebuild within 512MB of RAM without triggering out-of-memory kills. By comparison, a stock NixOS deployment with cloud-init used 288MB at idle and needed up to 896MB to rebuild, previously causing OOM kills at 768MB on constrained setups. The changes included disabling kernel memory allocation profiling and reducing loaded kernel modules from 89 to 54.
lowendspirit.com
· 2026-11-01
A developer describes deploying FreshRSS, a self-hosted RSS reader, on a NixOS server using just nine lines of Nix configuration code plus a reverse proxy setup. The deployment has run unattended for months, and the developer notes that if the server fails, an identical setup could be rebuilt in roughly 15 minutes.
entropicthoughts.com
· 2026-10-20
A write-up on NixOS describes how generic SBOM-based vulnerability scans flag CVEs in dependencies even when the vulnerable code path isn't actually used, creating noise for maintainers and security teams. It argues that VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) documents, which state whether a product is truly exposed to a given CVE, can be generated and applied effectively within Nix's build system to filter out irrelevant findings.
blog.kammel.dev
· 2026-10-11
The Netherlands is developing DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid), a sovereign IT ecosystem built on NixOS, a Linux distribution with roots in Dutch-created Nix package-manager technology. The project aims to supply government and public institutions with a homegrown operating system, office applications, cloud services and management tools as alternatives to US software. Early pilot deployments of DAWO have already launched in private and local settings, with plans to expand across Dutch institutions.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-29
After US sanctions on the International Criminal Court left its chief prosecutor without access to Microsoft services including email, the Dutch government launched DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid) to reduce dependence on US-based software and cloud services. The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations is overseeing the project, with SSC-ICT, DICTU and DUO-ICT building a system around NixOS, and eight municipalities are already running trials.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-28
A Dutch government initiative is reportedly building an alternative to Microsoft's software stack using NixOS, an open-source Linux distribution known for its reproducible system configuration. Details of the project's scope, timeline and funding were not specified in available materials.
dawo.community
· 2026-09-25
A blog post walks through configuring swap on NixOS for desktops and laptops that use suspend-then-hibernate, contrasting swap partitions with swap files. It notes that swap files complicate hibernation because initramfs must locate the swap space before file systems mount, requiring an EFI variable to record the location at hibernation time. The author shares working configurations: a simple swap partition on a desktop, and a LUKS-encrypted btrfs swap file on a laptop using the disko luks-btrfs-subvolumes template.
blog.matthewbrunelle.com
· 2026-09-23
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