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NixOS
Lambda the Ultimate
introduces NixOS, a Linux
distribution based on Nix, a purely functional package management system.
NixOS is an experiment based on Eelco Dolstra's PhD thesis, The Purely
Functional Software Deployment Model. From the Nix home page: "Nix is a
purely functional package manager. It allows multiple versions of a package
to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency specifications are
complete, supports atomic upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to
install software, and has many other features. It is the basis of the NixOS
Linux distribution, but it can be used equally well under other Unix
systems."
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NixOS Posted Apr 12, 2007 13:11 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I'll freely admit that a system with this name makes my head hurt (I can't read about its package manager or directory hierarchiy without constantly crashing to a halt with name collisions) but the idea looks extremely cool.
I for one will certainly give it a try.
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