NixOS’ No-Turning-Back Journey on RISC-V: Vision, Porting Progress, and the Road Ahead

This joint talk by DeepComputing and the NixOS community shares the journey of bringing NixOS to RISC-V as the architecture becomes first-class for Linux. We cover the vision for a fully open, reproducible ecosystem, the current RISC-V status in Nixpkgs/NixOS—from bootstrap work to the first successful port on DeepComputing hardware—and the roadmap ahead, including device support, upstream needs, testing, and community collaboration.