It's worth checking out at least the introductory parts of the theses written about Nix and NixOS. Eelco Dolstra's Ph.D. thesis describing Nix, "The Purely Fun

It's worth checking out at least the introductory parts of the theses written about Nix and NixOS. Eelco Dolstra's Ph.D. thesis describing Nix, "The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model": https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf Armijn Hemel's master's thesis describing NixOS: https://nixos.org/docs/SCR-2005-091.pdf https://nixos.org/docs/SCR-2005-091.pdf Or this more recent journal article about Nix/NixOS which is a good introduction: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf ("NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution").