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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by svrtknst on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:24PM (#18366405)
> Nixos for easy reproducible operating system configuration

I'm somewhat out of my depth here, but isn't Vagrant suitable for this purpose?

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by tinco on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:51PM (#18366632)
You usually use Vagrant to provision a machine with a suitable image and then use some other tech to setup your environment on that image. Common choices are Chef, Puppet or Salt, last time I checked.

You can use NixOS to replace both the OS image and the configuration tech.

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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by ghuntley on Friday November 02, 2018 @05:07PM (#18366764)
Watch https://youtu.be/tl9I-R83lKo for a quick overview. It me in the video btw.
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by sdwisely on Saturday November 03, 2018 @08:14AM (#18369847)
Great run-through, thank you!
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by webster23 on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:58PM (#18366691)
You don't use Vagrant for your desktop, do you?
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Re:NixOS – Purely Functional Linux Distribution by zymhan on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#18366624)
No no no. Vagrant is for spinning up dev environment VMs with a virtualization tool like VirtualBox.
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