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Intro to the Flox CLI, part three: cloning, pushing, and pulling
The third part of this series shows how you can clone environments, layer them, and share them.
Intro to the Flox CLI, part two: aliases, vars, and hooks
The second part of this series explores the ways you can use Flox environments to adjust the way software is configured and run.
Intro to the Flox CLI, part one: easy environments
Flox makes it easy to create ephemeral environments and try new tools without making a mess all over your desk.
Why we built Flox
Flox CLI 1.0 and FloxHub is here! It's a good opportunity to reflect on our own experiences and the reasons we feel Flox is a part of the next generation of software development practices.
Nix in the Wild: Project IDX
We caught up with Vova Kryachko from Project IDX and asked him to tell us how his team use Nix to deliver a flexible IDE experience in the cloud. Some of his answers may surprise you.
NixCon 2023: Recap & Videos
Nixcon 2023 in Darmstadt is a wrap! The team from flox was there, giving talks and having amazing conversations. In this post, find videos from our NixCon 2023 talks.
Nix in the Wild: The Flying Circus
Christian Theune has been working in IT since the late-1990s, and his experience gives him a clear understanding of what it takes to maintain applications and systems over the long term. In this edition of Nix in the Wild, he shares how they use NixOS to support long-term customers.
Nix in the Wild: Looker (GCP)
In this latest edition, we had a chance to speak with Farid Zakaria from Google. He has a lot to say about motivating people to adopt new tools, and shared his story with us.
Nix in the Wild: Sift Technologies
Sift Technologies specializes in human curation, offering trusted recommendations and facilitating recommendations from people to people. One of the tools they leverage in their work is Nix.
Nix in the Wild: PDT Partners
Graham's team focuses on high-performance computing, real-time trading, and full-stack development. Controlling configurations and ensuring reproducibility are critical aspects of their work, making Nix an ideal fit for their needs
Nix in the Wild: Prisma
In the world of software development, efficiency and scalability are paramount. Read how companies like Prisma are leading the way by using Nix to manage system dependencies and streamline projects.
Rust & Nix: Parallels in Complexity Management
If Rust seeks to solve the problem of memory management at the program level, Nix seeks to solve dependency management at the build level, for any language. The problems are analogous, and the solutions go hand in hand.
Contributing to Nixpkgs
We're big fans of Nixpkgs (obviously) and encourage others to contribute packaging and review. Nixpkgs is surprisingly easy to contribute to, but has its particular details. This is a guide to contributing your first PR to Nixpkgs.
Nixpkgs: the big recipe book of open source
Anybody can view it, fork it, patch it, and use Nix to inspect the largest set of free software recipes in the world. People sometimes focus on Nix the language or Nix the package manager, but it's the Nixpkgs package collection that is core to the success of Nix.
Nix and Containers: why not both?
Think outside the box. People often say they don't use Nix because it solves the same problems that containerization does. This is a half truth. Nix specializes in packaging software, while containerization excels at deploying software. They're best when used together.
Announcing the flox Open Beta
Harness the power of Nix. Today we’re thrilled to release the flox CLI beta to the public as an open source project and announce a Series A funding round led by NEA.
Hash Collision
GitHub changed the format of their archives and this unexpectedly caused some systems and services that depend on the hash of the archives of a source tree to break. Nix uses NAR hashes, a custom format for source archives; NAR hashes are deterministic based on the content of a source tree.
Happy New Year!
tired: year of the Linux desktop. wired: year of Nix everywhere. 2022 was a pivotal year for flox. We are delighted with the response towards the platform and CLI, and very grateful for the many fascinating conversations we had with users.
Building the Ladder: flox at NixCon
At NixCon 2022, flox Lead Engineer Tom Bereknyei (@tomberek) presented the mission behind flox. It was an important moment for us to share with the Nix community what we see as the problems we can solve, and how we intend to go about solving them.
Thank you NixCon!
Last week, the Nix community got together in person for the first time in 3 years, in Paris, for three days of presentations, discussion, and good times.
Announcing flox
flox is a first-of-its-kind environment manager. Seamlessly create new polyglot developer environments. Make everything reproducible from package management to builds.
Nix: Pure Genius
I absolutely love it when hard problems are solved by challenging convention, peeling back layer after layer until pinpointing the core assumption that led us down the wrong path in the first place.