NixOS 16.03 "Emu" Operating System Released with systemd 229 and Linux 4.4 LTS
Marius Nestor
NixOS developer Domen Kožar announced the
release of the NixOS 16.03 operating system, which is considered an
update to the previous version, NixOS 15.09.
Dubbed Emu, NixOS 16.03 introduces updates to most
of the core components, starting with the systemd init system, which has
been updated to version 229, and continuing with the Linux kernel
packages, now rebased on the latest long-term support branch, version
4.4, replacing the old 3.18 kernels.
Among other software that received updates during
the six-month development cycle of the NixOS 16.03 "Emu" operating
system, we can mention GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 5.3, which is a
significant upgrade from the previous 4.9 release, the Glibc 2.23
library, Perl 5.22, as well as Binutils 2.26.
"This is a low profile release, but it contains many
small improvements. We had 10567 commits from 448 contributors in this
release spanning over 6 months," said Domen Kožar in the release announcement. "The release brings many improvements including Nix 1.12.2, sysyemd 229, Kernel 4.4 and many packages updates."
32-bit ISO and VM images were dropped
NixOS 16.03 "Emu" appears to be a major update, and according to the release notes
there are numerous small under-the-hood improvements that will make a
big difference. For example, the Mozilla Firefox and Midori web browsers
are now installed by default, the "jobs" NixOS option, wmiimenu,
s3sync, Ruby 1.8, and tidy-html5 were removed.
Moreover, the developers no longer provide 32-bit
ISO images with a graphical environment, nor VirtualBox appliances for
the operating system, with the exception of a minimal 32-bit ISO. Again,
there are numerous other small changes, so if you want to know what
exactly has been changed, you should check out the official release
notes. In the meantime, you can download NixOS 16.03 "Emu" right now via our website.
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