1[<img src="https://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos) 2 3[![Code Triagers Badge](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs/badges/users.svg)](https://www.codetriage.com/nixos/nixpkgs) 4 5Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package 6manager. It is periodically built and tested by the [Hydra](https://hydra.nixos.org/) 7build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add 8[nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote: 9 10``` 11% git remote add channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git 12``` 13 14For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain 15custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-18.03` for the latest 16release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successful build of master: 17 18``` 19% git remote update channels 20% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03 21``` 22 23For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`. 24 25[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) Linux distribution source code is located inside 26`nixos/` folder. 27 28* [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation) 29* [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language) 30* [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/) 31* [Manual (NixOS)](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/) 32* [Community maintained wiki](https://nixos.wiki/) 33* [Continuous package builds for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined) 34* [Continuous package builds for 18.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-18.03) 35* [Tests for unstable/master](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents) 36* [Tests for 18.03 release](https://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-18.03/tested#tabs-constituents) 37 38Communication: 39 40* [Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/) 41* [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)