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Ab 1. September 2018 hat der Flying Circus seine Heimatbasis im Areal der Saltlabs. Ihr findet uns in der Leipziger Str. 70/71, auch bekannt als Oberer Boulevard von Halle (Saale).

Effective on 2018-03-01, we will be changing the platform default log format for managed nginx web servers. It will log only truncated IP addresses which makes it impossible to identify individual users. This change is motivated by recent…

Overlays are the new standard mechanism to customize nixpkgs. They replace constructs like packageOverride and overridePackages.

NixOS manages dependencies in a very strict way — sometimes too strict? Here at Flying Circus, many users prefer to compile custom applications in home directories.

It used to run fine for years... but now the (deprecated) Puppet infrastructure at the Flying Circus is showing signs of aging. It's not about server hardware or something like this (fully virtualized anyway) – it's about SSL certificates of Puppet's…