Articles related to the [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) Linux distribution, or the underlying Nix language and tool (and associated nixpkgs, of course).
2025 › July
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In this article, I want to show how to migrate an existing Linux server to NixOS — in my case the CoreOS/Flatcar Linux installation on my Network Attached Storage (NAS) PC. I will show in detail how the previous CoreOS setup looked like (lots of systemd units starting Docker containers), how I migrated it into an intermediate state (using Docker on NixOS) just to get things going, and finally how I migrated all units from Docker to native NixOS modules step-by-step. Read more →
2025 › June
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For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively. Read more →