NixOS

[Posted April 11, 2007 by ris]

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."

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.