#nixos
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US Sanctions Push the Netherlands Off Microsoft and Toward NixOS
After sanctions against the International Criminal Court cut its prosecutor off from Microsoft services, the Dutch government began building its own NixOS-based work environment.
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Infecting a Steam Link with NixOS
After finding a Steam Link forgotten since 2018 in his closet, a developer set out to turn it into a tiny always-on ARM server running NixOS — sidestepping the signed bootloader with a homemade kernel module.
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The Netherlands builds a Microsoft alternative on NixOS
The open DAWO community brings government, industry and society together to build a "digitally autonomous" workplace for Dutch public agencies.
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The “Trusting Trust” Attack via strip: How to Infect an Entire Linux Distribution
Researchers have shown that Ken Thompson's famous attack on the compiler isn't limited to compilers — they carried it out through the strip utility and planted a backdoor in nearly every binary in NixOS.
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In Linux 7.3, binfmt_misc will learn to pick the interpreter through BPF
The kernel mechanism for launching non-native executables is gaining a programmable interpreter choice — right down to attaching BPF programs that determine the environment for each individual launch.
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The Nixpkgs Core Team Announces Its Own Dissolution
After roughly ten months of work, the Nixpkgs core team has decided to disband, citing burnout and systemic governance problems within the project.