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NixOS is a Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager, which provides atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and a declarative configuration model[1]. It was originally founded by Eelco Dolstra[2].
Home Manager
Home Manager is a NixOS module made to configure your user's /home, Home Manager can be installed in different ways but a common approach is using the NixOS module, as that rebuilds Home Manager along with NixOS. Home Manager also provides a wide variety of options, which can be utilized to manage files, install and configure applications among other utilization options.
Lix
Lix is a community fork of nix, and is located at https://lix.systems. It uses the meson build system. The Lix team also plans to gradually introduce rust to the source code[3]. There are also plans to improve the nix language and make it into the lix language, which is different but still generally syntactically compatible with the nix language[3].
Trivia
- NixOS uses a purely functional package management approach, ensuring that package installations do not interfere with one another.
- The Nix package manager allows for reproducible builds, making it ideal for development environments.