October 9th on the official website of the project announced the release of NixOS 19.09, codenamed Loris.
NixOS is a distribution with a unique approach to package management and system configuration. The distribution is built on a "functionally pure" package manager Nix and its own configuration system using a functional DSL (Nix expression language), allowing for a declarative description of the desired system state.
Some changes:
- Updated:
- Nix 2.3.0 (changes)
- systemd: 239 -> 243
- gcc: 7 -> 8
- glibc: 2.27
- linux: 4.19 LTS
- openssl: 1.0 -> 1.1
- plasma5: 5.14 -> 5.16
- gnome3: 3.30 -> 3.32
- During installation, an unprivileged user is now used (previously the installer used root by default)
- Xfce has been updated to version 4.14. This branch has its own module services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce4-14
- The gnome3 module (services.gnome3) has received many new options for better control over the list of installed programs and services.
A complete list of updates can be found in the release notes, before updating from the previous version, make sure to review the backward-incompatible changes.
Source: linux.org.ru
