Nix

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Nix is an advanced package manager for Linux systems with advanced features like side-by-side installation of different versions of a package, reproducible builds, multi-user package management and atomic upgrades and rollbacks.

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Nix is in many ways similar to the Guix package manager used by the GNU Guix distribution.

Nix OS[edit]

There is an operating system based on the Linux kernel which uses the Nix package manager for package management.

Documentation[edit]

There is a very long point-by-point document outlying Nix's advantages as "pills" available at https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/

Links[edit]

Nix's website is at https://nixos.org/


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