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No, actually Nix is a package manager/system configuration tool. NixOS uses Nix as part of its image.
by bheadmaster 9mo ago
No, actually Nix is a package manager/system configuration tool. NixOS uses Nix as part of its image.
- xboxnolifes 9mo agoNo, nix clearly means a Unix-like OS and any other interpretation is wrong, as the context of this thread would suggest.
- bigyabai 9mo agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homonym
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- ZenoArrow 9mo agoSo your argument is the first usage of a word gets exclusive rights to it? Firstly, that's not how human languages work. Secondly, this would invalidate the Unix claim to "nix" as it's been a word for hundreds of years prior to Unix being invented.
- johannes1234321 9mo agoIt is, but in IT context the association was strong, while Unixes decline and most of the systems with derived naming are historic. But anybody with a background in sysadmin for more than 10 years probably would still have the association. In ten years Linux will probably the only one remaining with the ux-naming (and MacOS X with the single X, which also serves as ten, following MacOS 9)
- 0x696C6961 9mo agoMy guy, most people don't even know what nix (the package manager) is.
- ZenoArrow 9mo agoTime to get familiar then.
- rendaw 9mo agoLearnixOS doesn't seem to have anything to do with NixOS, afaict?