NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released with GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.26, and OpenSSL 3
Coming six months after NixOS 22.05 “Quokka”, NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” is here with new and updated packages, as well as new features like support for more secure algorithms for software and system login passwords through the implementation of the libxcrypt library, nsncd as a replacement of nscd for resolving hostnames, users, etc., as well as support for enabling the use of NVIDIA’s open-source kernel driver.
The NixOS 22.11 release also comes with OpenSSL 3, OpenSSH 9.1, PHP 8.1, Perl 5.36, and Python 3.10 by default, support for Linode cloud images, native compilation support for the emacs package, markdown generated NixOS documentation, Nix 2.11.0 package management system, and support for the latest GNOME 43 and KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop environment series.
Update (by Roy)
The official blog:
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NixOS 22.11 released
Hey everyone, we are Martin Weinelt and Janne Heß, the release managers for this stable release and we are very proud to announce the public availability of NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon”.
This release will receive bugfixes and security updates for seven months (up until 2023-06-30).
Releas notes:
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NixOS 22.11 manual
The NixOS release team is happy to announce a new version of NixOS 22.11. NixOS is both a Linux distribution, and a set of packages usable on other Linux systems and macOS.
This release is supported until the end of June 2023, handing over to NixOS 23.05.
Bobby Borisov's article:
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NixOS 22.11 "Raccoon" Released with Security in Mind
One of the most software-rich Linux distributions, NixOS, has released v22.11 with a strong focus on security and updated software versions.
Many of you are probably thinking, “Yet another new version of one of the many Linux distros.” However, the story is different because we are dealing with a one-of-a-kind beast.
So, before we go into the dry and dull “statistics” of Linux kernel versions, desktop environments, and software in this NixOS release, we’d like to explain why this Linux distro is exceptional and deserves your attention.
NixOS is a unique Linux distro due to the concept upon which it is built. However, to avoid further confusion, two key terms should be first defined: Nix, which is a cross-distro package system, and NixOS, which is the Linux distribution itself.
Update (by Rianne Schestowitz)
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NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': Like a proof of concept you can do things with
NixOS is a distro built with a new sort of software build tool. You can install it and it works, but oddly that isn't really the point.
This is not a conventional Linux distribution, and so this is not a conventional distro review. We know that one of the most irritating types of statement is "if you have to ask, then you won't understand." Attempting to understand Nix and NixOS, as an outsider, are a little bit like that: the virtues and benefits that its website and wiki talk about, or even early coverage, for instance here on Linux.com, are rather theoretical. There appears to be little overlap between the sort of things that the Nix community seems to consider important, and things an ordinary desktop OS user might consider important, that it is hard to bridge the gap.