October 9 official website 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 the basis of a "functionally pure" package manager nix and its own configuration system using a functional DSL (Nix expression language) that allows you to declaratively describe the desired state of the system.
Some changes:
- Updated:
- Nix 2.3.0 (changes)
- systemd: 239 -> 243
- gcc: 7 -> 8
- glibc: 2.27
- linux: 4.19LTS
- openssl: 1.0 -> 1.1
- plasma5: 5.14 -> 5.16
- gnome3: 3.30 -> 3.32
- The installation process now uses an unprivileged user (previously the installer used root by default)
- Xfce has been updated to version 4.14. This branch got its own module services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce4-14
- The gnome3 module (services.gnome3) has received many new options for more precise control over the list of installed programs and services.
For a complete list of updates, see release notes, before upgrading from a previous version, you should familiarize yourself with backwards incompatible changes.
Source: linux.org.ru