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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What are your opinions of Guix? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

nix is a programming language too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I forgot this.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Not quite: It's an expression language.

The ultimate output of Nix is one set of data, usually the description of a derivation (~= package). You cannot cause arbitrary side-effects with it like writing to files or making network requests with it.