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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. 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.

The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies:

* [[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.

* [[Nix Expression Language]], a dynamic, functional and lazy JSON-like language to create expressions for reproducible derivations

* [[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.

* [[Nixpkgs]], the largest community maintained Nix package repository

* [[NixOS Modules System]], a library for modular expression definitions which powers [[NixOS]] configuration language.

* [[NixOS Testing library]], a library for creating reproducible infrastructure tests, based on [[Nixpkgs]], [[NixOS]], QEMU and Perl.

* [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, which has support for AWS, Hetzner, GCE and some other cloud providers out of box

* [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system

* 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. 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.
+The ''Nix Ecosystem'' is a collection of technologies:
+* [[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.
+* [[Nix Expression Language]], a dynamic, functional and lazy JSON-like language to create expressions for reproducible derivations
+* [[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.
+* [[Nixpkgs]], the largest community maintained Nix package repository
+* [[NixOS Modules System]], a library for modular expression definitions which powers [[NixOS]] configuration language.
+* [[NixOS Testing library]], a library for creating reproducible infrastructure tests, based on [[Nixpkgs]], [[NixOS]], QEMU and Perl.
+* [[NixOps]], a Nix based deployment and provisioning tool, which has support for AWS, Hetzner, GCE and some other cloud providers out of box
+* [[Hydra]], a Nix based continuous build system
+* many other [[applications]] developed by the Nix community, utilizing and supporting these core technologies.
 [[Category:Discussion]]
 [[Category:Ecosystem]]
 [[Category:Incomplete]]