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The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies built around the [[Nix Package Manager]], which uses a purely functional packaging language called the [[Nix Expression Language]] to specify reproducible build processes. Nix stores the results into hashed addresses, allowing multiple versions of the same package to live side by side. This allowed the creation of [[NixOS]], a Linux distribution with ''all'' components built by Nix, and thus supporting reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks. A community ~~maintained package repository called~~ [[Nixpkgs]] is the largest Nix package repository, ~~and~~ also hosts NixOS packages (known as modules). In addition to these the community developed [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, and [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system. There are also many other [[applications]] developed by the Nix community, utilizing and supporting these core technologies.

The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies built around the [[Nix Package Manager]], which uses a purely functional packaging language called the [[Nix Expression Language]] to specify reproducible build processes. Nix stores the results into hashed addresses, allowing multiple versions of the same package to live side by side. This allowed the creation of [[NixOS]], a Linux distribution with ''all'' components built by Nix, and thus supporting reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks. The Nix community maintains [[Nixpkgs]], the largest Nix package repository, which also hosts NixOS packages (known as modules). In addition to these the community developed [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, and [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system. There are also many other [[applications]] developed by the Nix community, utilizing and supporting these core technologies.

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	The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies built around the [[Nix Package Manager]], which uses a purely functional packaging language called the [[Nix Expression Language]] to specify reproducible build processes. Nix stores the results into hashed addresses, allowing multiple versions of the same package to live side by side. This allowed the creation of [[NixOS]], a Linux distribution with ''all'' components built by Nix, and thus supporting reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks. A community ~~maintained package repository called~~ [[Nixpkgs]] is the largest Nix package repository, ~~and~~ also hosts NixOS packages (known as modules). In addition to these the community developed [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, and [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system. There are also many other [[applications]] developed by the Nix community, utilizing and supporting these core technologies.		The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies built around the [[Nix Package Manager]], which uses a purely functional packaging language called the [[Nix Expression Language]] to specify reproducible build processes. Nix stores the results into hashed addresses, allowing multiple versions of the same package to live side by side. This allowed the creation of [[NixOS]], a Linux distribution with ''all'' components built by Nix, and thus supporting reproducible and declarative system-wide configuration management as well as atomic upgrades and rollbacks. The Nix community maintains [[Nixpkgs]], the largest Nix package repository, which also hosts NixOS packages (known as modules). In addition to these the community developed [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, and [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system. There are also many other [[applications]] developed by the Nix community, utilizing and supporting these core technologies.