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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by seqizz on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:18AM (#36388226)
Afaiu it's trying to become all. Nix is on core, you can get packages from nixpkgs / write your own definitions, use it on OS configurations via NixOS, use its built-in helpers to run your containers with it, make a whole CI and cache it with the help of Hydra etc.
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by politelemon on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:20AM (#36388240)
That's confusing because NixOS also seems to be an operating system, looking at the blog post?
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by chpatrick on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:24AM (#36388265)
NixOS is just a super barebones distro where everything is configured with Nix. You can also use Nix on Ubuntu or some other distro.
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by SuperSandro2000 on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:30AM (#36392235)
Bare bones as in by default you don't get much unless you turn it on
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by chpatrick on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:17AM (#36402409)
Right, it's just bash, Nix and systemd by default.
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