In this talk, you will learn how Apple Silicon hardware differs from regular laptops or desktops. We'll cover how we reverse engineered the hardware without staring at disassembly but by using a thin hypervisor that traces all MMIO access and then wrote Linux drivers. We'll also talk about how upstr
Talk from June 1, 2024 at the Goulash Programming Night 22 in Karlsruhe. https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn22/talk/FFJ8QT/ The poor support of Wayland among Nvidia drivers has rightly reached meme status. But especially in recent years, a lot has happened to improve this status, both on the part of Nvidia a
Nix Your Bugs is a meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Nix (the package manager) or NixOS (the Linux distribution). The meetup begins with talks related to NixOS, and ends with casual networking and exchange between the meetup participants. Michael Stapelberg is the
In this video, you'll learn how to set up SSH keys for secure and convenient authentication with GitLab. Instead of repeatedly typing your password, SSH keys provide a stronger and more efficient way to connect to GitLab, especially when using git for your projects. We'll walk you through generating
by Wolfgang (@notthebee@tilde.zone) Creating a console-like gaming experience using a regular x86 PC is something many people strive for - in this talk I will explain what challenges I faced along the path, and why I ultimately settled on NixOS as the perfect tool for the job. --- One year after
by Stefan Machmeier The flakes experimental feature is a major development for Nix, it introduces a policy for managing dependencies between Nix expressions, it improves reproducibility, composability and usability in the Nix ecosystem. Although it's still an experimental feature, flakes have been
by Andre Dossinger Nix and NixOS enable new ways of managing systems. This talk is about using and abusing NixOS within a self-hosting setup. Do not expect best practices from this talk, but insights into how NixOS can be used in a problem oriented manner to preserve privacy and make complex setups
One year after our first Nix & Rust meetup, we are meeting again in Heidelberg for our first anniversary! 🎊 Note that for the first time, this meetup is only about Nix and NixOS, the declarative package manager and Linux distribution. Mac (Nix on darwin) users are welcome as well! Our Rust Your Eng
“Morevna” is a futuristic anime series, based on traditional Russian fairy-tale "The Death of Koschei The Deathless". License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 All animation is made using free/open-source software: * Synfig - http://synfig.org/ * Krita - http://krita.org/ * Blender - ht
NixOS 25.11 (unstable) Linux 6.15.6-cachyos KDE Plasma 6.4.2 NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules 575.64.03 Proton GE 10.9
by Benjamin Sparks Robust data streaming is a complex task, requiring low runtime overhead, safe buffer management, and robust error handling. To address these challenges, this talk showcases managing data streams in Rust, by using the well-known Tokio libraries to asynchronously read from and writ
Nix Your Bugs & Rust Your Engines is a new meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Rust (the programming language), Nix (the package manager), or NixOS (the Linux distribution). This time, it took place at the RaumZeitLabor in Mannheim on March 18, 2024. 0:00 - Welcome 3
