···11-[<img src="http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />
22-](https://nixos.org/nixos)
11+[<img src="http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-hires.png" width="500px" alt="logo" />](https://nixos.org/nixos)
3244-[](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs) [](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs) [](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
33+[](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs)
44+[](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
55+[](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
5666-Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package manager. It is periodically build and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/) build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add [nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote:
77+Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
88+manager. It is periodically build and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/)
99+build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add
1010+[nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote:
711812```
913% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
1014```
11151212-For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-14.12` for the latest release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successfully build master:
1616+For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
1717+custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. `nixos-14.12` for the latest
1818+release and `nixos-unstable` for the latest successfully build master:
13191420```
1521% git remote update channels
···18241925For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs `master`.
20262121-[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside `nixos/` folder.
2727+[NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside
2828+`nixos/` folder.
22292330* [NixOS installation instructions](https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#ch-installation)
2431* [Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)](https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#ch-expression-language)