nixos

08 Jan 2023
How to execute NixOS tests interactively for debugging
Jörg Thalheim and Alex A. Renoire
For complex modules, you may sometimes struggle to understand why a test isn’t behaving properly. To gain more insight, you may want to …
08 Jan 2023
How to use NixOS testing framework with flakes
Jörg Thalheim and Alex A. Renoire
In this article, I will explain how to perform full integration tests with flakes outside nixpkgs. With NixOS testing framework, you can …
31 Dec 2022
Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
Jörg Thalheim and Jill Thornhill
No such file or directory: How I stopped worrying and started loving binaries on NixOS. In this article, I will discuss the technical issue …
17 Dec 2022
Hacking on Kernel Modules in NixOS
Jörg Thalheim and Alex A. Renoire
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 …