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Is it Nix or NixOS?
by beermonster 4y ago
Is it Nix or NixOS?
- qbasic_forever 4y agoBoth exist. Nix is a functional language for describing how software is built. Nix is also a package manager of sorts that installs and manages software built with its language. NixOS is an operating system that is described entirely by a nix language configuration file that builds a bootable linux-based OS using nix language packages.
- grumbel 4y agoNix is a package manager & programming language that you can install on any Linux or MacOS to manage software. NixOS is a bootable OS build on top of Nix. Nixpkgs is the default package collection used by both Nix and NixOS.