How to execute NixOS tests interactively for debugging
For complex modules, you may sometimes struggle to understand why a test isn’t behaving properly. To gain more insight, you may want to …
How to use NixOS testing framework with flakes
In this article, I will explain how to perform full integration tests with flakes outside nixpkgs. With NixOS testing framework, you can …
Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
No such file or directory: How I stopped worrying and started loving binaries on NixOS. In this article, I will discuss the technical issue …
Hacking on Kernel Modules in NixOS
Lately, I hacked on some kernel modules to get more debug logs out of a kernel module on my NixOS machine. Because NixOS does not follow the …
Cross compiling and deploying NixOS
Background Last week I was setting up this RISCv-based HiFive Unmatched board[1] with NixOS. Thanks to zhaofengli this was actually pretty …