This is a ported version of the Nix Pills, a series of blog posts written by Luca Bruno (aka Lethalman) and originally published in 2014 and 2015. It provides a tutorial introduction into the Nix package manager and Nixpkgs package collection, in the form of short chapters called 'pills'.
Since the Nix Pills are considered a classic introduction to Nix, an effort to port them to the current format was led by Graham Christensen (aka grahamc) and other contributors in 2017.
For an up-to-date version, please visit https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/. An EPUB version is also available.
If you encounter problems, please report them on the nixos/nix-pills issue tracker.
Available online as a multi-page HTML or an e-book in EPUB format.
You can also build them locally:
nix-build release.nix -A html-split && firefox result/share/doc/nix-pills/index.html
Similarly, for an EPUB version, run:
nix-build release.nix -A epub && foliate result/share/doc/nix-pills/nix-pills.epub