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📣 All Systems Go! is back in 2026! Same location, same dates.
We hope to see you 🫵 in 📍Berlin 📆 Sept 30-Oct 1 for 2 days of presentations, conversations and collaboration around foundational user-space Linux technologies.
More info here 👉 https://all-systems-go.io/
Follow to get notified when the CFP opens and 🎟️ tix go on sale.

All Systems Go!

Paul Meyer Feb 17

Jon Seager Feb 16

Today I published an update on the #Canonical supported #upki project, which brings browser-grade Public Key Infrastructure to Linux through the efficient #CRLite data format, with the core revocation engine now functional and available to test!

Beyond current progress, this post explores broader integration, performance, and future capabilities like Certificate Transparency enforcement and Merkle Tree.

This is all part of the effort to increase the resilience of #Ubuntu machines by default, but I hope it has a wider benefit on the Linux ecosystem going forward!

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/77063

#CertificateTransparency #PKI #Cryptography

An update on upki

Last year, I announced that Canonical had begun supporting the development of upki, a project that will bring browser-grade Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to Linux. Since then, development has been moving at pace thanks to the tireless work of Dirkjan and Joe. In this post, I’ll explore the progress we’ve made, how you can try an early version, and where we’re going next. Architecture & Progress As a reminder, upki’s primary goal is to provide a reliable, privacy-preserving, and efficient cer...

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Paul Meyer Feb 13

NixCon 2026 will take place in Kraków, Poland!
The SC approved the venue proposal: https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-proposals/issues/6
#NixCon #NixCon2026 #Nix #NixOS

Paul Meyer Feb 9

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

Paul Meyer Feb 6

figsoda Feb 6

Just released nix-init 0.3.3! Here are all the changes:

# Changes

- Use finalAttrs pattern instead of rec
- Drop compatibility with nurl < 0.4

# Features

- Rust: fetchCargoVendor support
- Headless mode
- stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation support
- Automatically format with nixfmt if it's found
- Better license detection
- Rust: emit LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR when needed
- Improve error messages

# Fixes

- Remove legacy darwin sdk
- Go: drop -w from default ldflags
- Prefix unstable versions with 0-
- fetchCrate now works correctly
- GitHub: sort tags
- Python: fully remove outdated behavior of adding wheel to dependencies
- Normalize homepage URLs
- More consistency with nixfmt formatting

https://github.com/nix-community/nix-init

GitHub - nix-community/nix-init: Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda]

Generate Nix packages from URLs with hash prefetching, dependency inference, license detection, and more [maintainer=@figsoda] - nix-community/nix-init

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Paul Meyer Jan 31

Our devroom this year is much larger than the years before, it's still full! Cool to see so many people are interested in NixOS.
#fosdem #nixos #nix