Nixos Manual Pdf. I installed NixOS from USB key in UEFI mode. There were a few things that were not clear to me from the installation instructions: That I have to create a boot partition. Gnome has been upgraded to 3.16. Xfce has been upgraded to 4.12. KDE 5 has been upgraded to KDE Frameworks NixOS Wiki. Welcome to the unofficial user's wiki. This wiki is user-maintained. Take a look at the about page for more information. Then ctrl+alt+F8 gives you the manual in a terminal, which may be nice to keep around in case of emergency. nixos-help opens the manual in a browser window. nixos-option is a good reference for the configuration options. To search for packages, use nix-env -qaP | grep . One of the attractive features of NixOS is the ability to declaratively configure all aspects of the system from one configuration file called configuration.nix or for manageability, with this file and input files -- imports in the nix expression terminology --) that are called from this file. Even nix expressions (package build scripts) that can initiate a custom package build, starting from Submit your post. NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. In existing distributions, actions such as upgrades are dangerous: upgrading a package can cause other packages to break, upgrading an entire system is much less reliable than reinstalling from scratch, you can't safely test what the results of a configuration change will be, you NixOS is a Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It uses declarative configuration and allows reliable system upgrades. Two main branches are offered: current Stable release and Unstable following latest development. Although NixOS started as a research project, it is a fully functional and usable operating system. NixOS has been discussed many times on HN already. However, Nix 1.9 was released today (/yesterday for the some): The only reason I switched away from it w