# NixOS Foundation and Framework announce official partnership

> **Key takeaway:** The NixOS Foundation and Framework have formalized their collaboration to improve NixOS support and hardware compatibility for Framework devices.

**Published:** 2026-01-12T19:00:00+00:00 
**Source:** NixOS Release & Security Blog 
**Category:** distro-news 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/nixos-release-security-framework-partnership-announcement.html 

## Summary
The NixOS Foundation has transitioned its relationship with Framework from a community-led initiative to an official partnership. This collaboration aims to provide professional coordination for testing, documentation, and hardware support for current and future Framework devices. The partnership includes direct contributions to nixos-hardware and nixpkgs repositories.

## Technical progress and collaboration details
- Framework is contributing directly to the **nixos-hardware** and **nixpkgs** repositories.
- A shared **Matrix** channel has been established between Framework and the NixOS Hardware Team for troubleshooting.
- Recent technical achievements include the addition of the **fw-fanctrl** module and screen-rotation support for Framework 12.
- Support efforts cover Framework 12, Framework 16 AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series, and Framework Desktop.

## Why it matters
This formalization provides hardware vendors with more reliable coordination, potentially paving the way for NixOS to become an officially supported Linux distribution on more hardware.