diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index ae7caa82b4f..00000000000
--- a/NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-Nix Packages 0.8 (April 11, 2005)
-
-* This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed
-  hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.
-
-* Notable updates:
-
-  - Adobe Reader 7.0
-  - Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)
-
-
-Nix Packages 0.7 (March 14, 2005)
-
-* The bootstrap process for the standard build environment on Linux
-  (stdenv-linux) has been improved.  It is no longer dependent in its
-  initial bootstrap stages on the system Glibc, GCC, and other tools.
-  Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically linked bash and curl, and uses
-  that to download other statically linked tools.  These are then used
-  to build a Glibc and dynamically linked versions of all other
-  tools.
-
-  This change also makes the bootstrap process faster.  For instance,
-  GCC is built only once instead of three times.
-
-  (Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
-
-* Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server that
-  hosts Nixpkgs (catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl).  This reduces the risk of
-  packages being unbuildable due to moved or deleted files on various
-  servers.
-
-* There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules.  See the
-  various Perl modules defined in pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.
-    
-* Notable new packages:
-
-  - Qt 3
-  - MySQL
-  - MythTV
-  - Mono
-  - MonoDevelop (alpha)
-  - Xine
-
-* Notable updates:
-
-  - GCC 3.4.3
-  - Glibc 2.3.4
-  - GTK 2.6
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c84facb435b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+ENV = SGML_CATALOG_FILES=$(docbookcatalog)
+
+XMLLINT = $(ENV) xmllint --catalogs
+XSLTPROC = $(ENV) xsltproc --catalogs \
+ --param section.autolabel 1 \
+ --param section.label.includes.component.label 1 \
+ --param html.stylesheet \'style.css\' \
+ --param xref.with.number.and.title 1 \
+ --param toc.section.depth 3
+
+NEWS_OPTS = \
+ --stringparam generate.toc "article nop" \
+ --stringparam section.autolabel.max.depth 0 \
+ --stringparam header.rule 0
+
+all: NEWS.html NEWS.txt
+
+NEWS.html: release-notes.xml
+	$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude --output $@ $(NEWS_OPTS) \
+	  $(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl release-notes.xml
+
+NEWS.txt: release-notes.xml
+	$(XSLTPROC) --nonet --xinclude quote-literals.xsl release-notes.xml | \
+	  $(XSLTPROC) --nonet --output $@.tmp.html $(NEWS_OPTS) \
+	  $(docbookxsl)/html/docbook.xsl -
+	LANG=en_US w3m -dump $@.tmp.html > $@
+	rm $@.tmp.html
diff --git a/doc/quote-literals.xsl b/doc/quote-literals.xsl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..983f5ac3506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/quote-literals.xsl
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+
+<xsl:stylesheet
+  version="1.0"
+  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+  xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"
+  extension-element-prefixes="str">
+
+  <xsl:output method="xml"/>
+  
+  <xsl:template match="function|command|literal|varname|filename|option|quote">`<xsl:apply-templates/>'</xsl:template>
+  
+  <xsl:template match="token"><xsl:text>    </xsl:text><xsl:apply-templates /><xsl:text>
+</xsl:text></xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="screen|programlisting">
+    <screen><xsl:apply-templates select="str:split(., '&#xA;')" /></screen>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="section[following::section]">
+    <section>
+      <xsl:apply-templates />
+      <screen><xsl:text>
+      </xsl:text></screen>        
+    </section>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="*">
+    <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
+      <xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*" />
+      <xsl:for-each select="@*">
+	<xsl:attribute name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
+	  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+	</xsl:attribute>
+      </xsl:for-each>
+      <xsl:apply-templates/>
+    </xsl:element>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.xml b/doc/release-notes.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5a413abe6b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book
+    PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+    "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.3/docbook-xml-4.3.zip"
+[
+]>
+
+<article><title>Nixpkgs Release Notes</title>
+
+
+<section><title>Release 0.9 (January 31, 2006)</title>
+
+<para>There have been zillions of changes since the last release of
+Nixpkgs.  Among the more notable are:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Distribution files have been moved to <ulink
+  url="http://nix.cs.uu.nl" />).</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section><title>Release 0.8 (April 11, 2005)</title>
+
+<para>This release is mostly to remain synchronised with the changed
+hashing scheme in Nix 0.8.</para>
+
+<para>Notable updates:
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+  <listitem><para>Adobe Reader 7.0</para></listitem>
+
+  <listitem><para>Various security updates (zlib 1.2.2, etc.)</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</para>
+
+</section>
+
+
+<section><title>Release 0.7 (March 14, 2005)</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem>
+
+  <para>The bootstrap process for the standard build
+  environment on Linux (stdenv-linux) has been improved.  It is no
+  longer dependent in its initial bootstrap stages on the system
+  Glibc, GCC, and other tools.  Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically
+  linked bash and curl, and uses that to download other statically
+  linked tools.  These are then used to build a Glibc and dynamically
+  linked versions of all other tools.</para>
+
+  <para>This change also makes the bootstrap process faster.  For
+  instance, GCC is built only once instead of three times.</para>
+
+  <para>(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)</para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+
+  <para>Tarballs used by Nixpkgs are now obtained from the same server
+  that hosts Nixpkgs (<ulink url="http://catamaran.labs.cs.uu.nl" />).
+  This reduces the risk of packages being unbuildable due to moved or
+  deleted files on various servers.</para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+
+  <para>There now is a generic mechanism for building Perl modules.
+  See the various Perl modules defined in
+  pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix.</para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+
+  <para>Notable new packages:
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem><para>Qt 3</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>MySQL</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>MythTV</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>Mono</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>MonoDevelop (alpha)</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>Xine</para></listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  </para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+<listitem>
+
+  <para>Notable updates:
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+
+    <listitem><para>GCC 3.4.3</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>Glibc 2.3.4</para></listitem>
+    <listitem><para>GTK 2.6</para></listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  </para>
+
+</listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</section>
+
+  
+</article>
diff --git a/doc/style.css b/doc/style.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bf6fc3ecf43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/style.css
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+/* Copied from http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/, which appears
+   licensed under the GNU GPL. */
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                             Basic headers and text:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+body
+{
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+    background: white;
+  
+    margin: 2em 1em 2em 1em;
+}
+
+h1,h2,h3
+{
+    color: #005aa0;
+    text-align: left;
+}
+
+h1 /* title */
+{
+    font-size: 200%;
+}
+
+h2 /* chapters, appendices, subtitle */
+{
+    font-size: 180%;
+}
+
+/* Extra space between chapters, appendices. */
+div.chapter > div.titlepage h2, div.appendix > div.titlepage h2 
+{ 
+    margin-top: 1.5em;
+/*    border-top: solid #005aa0; */
+}
+
+div.sect1 h2 /* sections */
+{
+    font-size: 150%;
+}
+
+div.refnamediv h2, div.refsynopsisdiv h2, div.refsection h2 /* refentry parts */
+{
+    font-size: 125%;
+}
+
+div.refsection h3
+{
+    font-size: 110%;
+}
+
+h3 /* subsections */
+{
+    font-size: 125%;
+}
+
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Program listings:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+div.example
+{
+    border: 1px solid #6185a0;
+    padding: 6px 6px;
+    margin-left: 3em;
+    margin-right: 3em;
+    background: #eeeeee;
+}
+
+pre.programlisting
+{
+    color: #600000;
+    font-family: monospace;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                            Screen dumps:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+pre.screen
+{
+    border: 1px solid #6185a0;
+    padding: 6px 6px;
+    margin-left: 3em;
+    margin-right: 3em;
+    color: #600000;
+    background: #eeeeee;
+    font-family: monospace;
+    /* font-size: 90%; */
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Notes, warnings etc:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+.note,.warning
+{
+    margin-top: 1em;
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+    border: 1px solid #6185a0;
+    padding: 0px 1em;
+    background: #fffff5;
+}
+
+div.note,div.warning
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+div.warning h3
+{
+    color: red;
+    font-size: 100%;
+}
+
+div.note h3
+{
+    color: blue;
+    font-size: 100%;
+}
+
+div.navfooter *
+{
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                        Links colors and highlighting: 
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+a:link { color: #0048b3; }
+a:visited { color: #002a6a; }
+a:hover { background: #ffffcd; }
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                              Table of contents:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+.toc
+{
+    font-size: 90%;
+}
+
+
+
+/***************************************************************************
+                               Special elements:
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+tt, code
+{
+    color: #400000;
+}
+
+.term
+{
+    font-weight: bold;
+    
+}
+
+div.variablelist dd
+{
+    margin-bottom: 1em;
+}
+
+.default
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+.availability
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+}
+
+.varname
+{
+    color: #400000;
+}
+
+
+div.informaltable table
+{
+  border: 1px solid #6185a0;
+  width: 100%;
+}
+
+div.informaltable td
+{
+  border: 0;
+  padding: 5px;
+}
+
+div.informaltable td.default
+{
+  text-align: right;
+}
+
+div.informaltable th
+{
+  text-align: left;
+  color: #005aa0;
+  border: 0;
+  padding: 5px;
+  background: #fffff5;
+  font-weight: normal;
+  font-style: italic;
+}
+
+td.varname, td.tagname, td.paramname
+{
+  font-weight: bold;
+  vertical-align: top;
+}
+
+div.epigraph
+{
+    font-style: italic;
+    text-align: right;
+}
+
+table.productionset table.productionset
+{
+    font-family: monospace;
+}