Nix

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details. Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source. Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix. Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it. The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org Official documentation on nix.dev Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively Discourse Matrix: users:nixos.org for user support and nix-dev:nixos.org for development