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Project Summary
The Purely Functional Package Manager
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
In a Nutshell, Nix...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 29 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2003
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
Quick Reference
https://github.com/NixOS/nix
GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
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