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Pointer equality

Lix contributors Technical notes

Introduction This page dives into the concept of pointer equality, its role in Lix, and provides ...

Updated 7 hours ago by Raito Bezarius

Debugging weird DNS resolutions inside sandbox

Lix users

Run this with pasta: $ nix-build -E 'let pkgs = (import <nixpkgs> {}); in pkgs.runCommand "resolv...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Raito Bezarius

Freezes and recommended contributions

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

Suggested contributions Consider taking an issue marked E-help wanted: assign it to yourself and ...

Updated 1 month ago by piegames

Flake stabilisation proposal

Lix contributors Design planning

Preface STATUS: The core team has discussed this proposal, and decided that Lix will be moving in...

Updated 1 month ago by piegames

Flakes feature freeze

Lix contributors Design planning

The core team has decided to freeze the Flake feature set and semantics at its current point, exc...

Updated 1 month ago by piegames

Lix Governance

Lix organisation

Lix has three overlapping circles of responsibility: The core team is the primary governance body...

Updated 2 months ago by piegames

Release names

Lix contributors

Release names are the names of frozen desserts. There's a list on Wikipedia of frozen desserts, b...

Updated 3 months ago by jade

Nix Resources

Lix users

Lix doesn't exist in a vacuum—but instead builds atop the incredible work of dozens of NixOS comm...

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Debugging a stuck Lix invocation

Lix users

If you're experiencing an issue where a lix command appears to hang or make no visible progress, ...

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Related projects

Lix users

This page lists community projects that are built with, optimized for, or make specific use of Li...

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Code of Conduct

Lix organisation

Moved to https://lix.systems/community-standards/

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Discussion notes template

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: Participants: Topic: Conclusion / Action items Metting notes / Discussion

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

2025-06-27 Wiki work

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-27 Present: jade, piegames Topic: Information organization in the wiki and the hom...

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

2025-06-26 Lix NixOS Module

Lix contributors Discussion notes

Date: 2025-06-26 Participants: Niko, k900, piegames, Raito Topic: The current state of the Lix N...

Updated 3 months ago by piegames

Gerrit

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

FIXME: this page is duplicating a lot of content from the Gerrit section and should be considered...

Updated 3 months ago by jade

Why Gerrit?

Lix contributors Gerrit

Gerrit produces better code: Gerrit enforces good commit messages. "PR message" and "commit mess...

Updated 3 months ago by jade

Contributor permissions and Code Owners

Lix contributors

One might wonder how permissions work on Lix and how one can help out with certain tasks. This is...

Updated 3 months ago by jade

Dealing with CI

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

Logging in to CI for restarts Go via https://buildkite.com/sso/lix-project and use your Lix accou...

Updated 4 months ago by Raito Bezarius

Working Groups

Lix contributors Working in the Lix codebase

What are they? Lix doesn't have a very formal development structure - ice cream isn't a stranger ...

Updated 4 months ago by jade

Improving IFD

Lix contributors Design planning

Discussion pad: https://pad.lix.systems/Xd5Xyt5cToyYxIv-lNdehA Further reading: https://jade.fy...

Updated 4 months ago by piegames