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The upcoming NixOS 22.05 release will feature a new module to easily setup a invoicing web app called Invocieplane. Here’s a short introduction on the app and how to use it on NixOS. Invoiceplane is an open-source web application for managing clients, invoices and product sets. You can use it to easily create invoices as […]

By chance I got a used Samsung Galaxy S5 which already has good Linux mainline support. I was able to install postmarketOS with Phosh user interface enabled. Here’s a short summary on the usability of various apps. Considering the device is an older phone from 2014, the overall user experience is already quite good. Sometimes […]

The Linux application firewall OpenSnitch will be easier to setup with the upcoming NixOS 22.05 release. Only a few configuration lines are needed to get the daemon and client running. The OpenSnitch daemon service was already merged with the 21.11 release and could theoretically be enabled with a simple configuration like this: Unfortunately there was […]

I decided to migrate my home server from ArchLinux ARM to NixOS to have a reproducible system based on a single configuration. My goal is to have more web services run with the new system. The hardware setup of the server is quite simple: ARM board Rock64 (4×1,5 GHz, 4 GB memory) 256 GB SD […]

The upcoming NixOS 21.11 release will include new packages, modules and some exciting technological changes under the hood. Here is a list of some updates I’m waiting for and some contributions I made in the last few months. New apps The modern and simple looking Gtk app fragments 1.5 got merged. I also tried to […]

I started to migrate my ARM homeserver to NixOS and was able to configure the printer together with AirPrint enabled network sharing. Here’s a short how-to. Update June 2022: Starting with newer Cups printing server versions (> 2.4), AirPrint support is already included and the configuration should be easier. See the section below for an […]