Nix: An idea whose time has come

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  • nixpkgs

    Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  • Not necessarily. There are many specific utilities used in phases that have to be written in the same language (well, they don't have to, but that's probably the simplest thing they could come up with for Nix).

  • nonguix

  • You mean Nonguix? It's existed for quite a while already and works very well. Just a few months ago it even got an official substitute (AKA "prebuilt-binary package repo" server!

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  • nickel

    Better configuration for less

  • guix-installer

    A GNU Guix installer image with the full Linux kernel!

  • There's also a community image (iso) of it made by System Crafters here.

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