1[<img src="http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos)
2
3[](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs)
4[](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs)
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6Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
7manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/)
8build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add
9[nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote:
10
11```
12% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
13```
14
15For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
16custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-17.03` for the latest
17release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successful build of master:
18
19```
20% git remote update channels
21% git rebase channels/nixos-17.03
22```
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24For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`.
25
26[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside
27`nixos/` folder.
28
29* [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation)
30* [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language)
31* [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/)
32* [Manual (NixOS)](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/)
33* [Nix Wiki](https://nixos.org/wiki/) (deprecated, see milestone ["Move the Wiki!"](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Move+the+wiki%21%22))
34* [Continuous package builds for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined)
35* [Continuous package builds for 17.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-17.03)
36* [Tests for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents)
37* [Tests for 17.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-17.03/tested#tabs-constituents)
38
39Communication:
40
41* [Mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nix-devel)
42* [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)