Nix is a cross-platform package manager for Unix-like systems, and a tool to instantiate and manage those systems, invented in 2003 by Eelco Dolstra....
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NixOS is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager. NixOS uses an immutable design and an atomic update model. Its use...
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containerized/sandboxed packaging format previously known as xdg-app; GNU Guix: Used by the GNU System. It is based on the Nix package manager with Guile Scheme...
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A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and...
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GNU Guix (category Free package management systems)
and Nix) is a functional cross-platform package manager and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, based on the Nix package manager...
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Prague Nix (package manager), a package and configuration manager for computer systems NixOS, a Linux distribution based on the package manager NIX, a derivative...
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peer-to-peer networks; the Certificate Transparency framework; the Nix package manager and descendants like GNU Guix; a number of NoSQL systems such as...
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software portal Fink Gentoo/Alt MacPorts Nix Pkgsrc FreeBSD Ports Installer (macOS) List of software package management systems Homebrew release 0.1 on...
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lightweight remote file system is required: NixOS: a Linux distribution that uses the Nix package manager. NixOS can rebuild itself inside a virtual machine...
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Compilation guides are available for Gentoo Linux, Ubuntu, MacPorts, and Nix package manager. The project is currently "abandoned" due to lack of time. Despite...
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platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format and the dpkg package manager and its frontends (such as apt or synaptic). Ubuntu (named...
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Dependency hell (category Package management systems)
Dynamic dead code elimination Package manager PBI Software appliance Static library Supply chain attack Nix package manager npm left-pad incident Michael...
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system every time a change is made. "Maak" is Dutch for "make". Nix package manager Dolstra, E. (2003). "Integrating Software Construction and Software...
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Linux CoreFlux Linux, Unix, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi CentOS, NixOS, Nix (package manager), Debian, Docker, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, macOS, Windows...
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client with online TV functionalities; Nix package manager and NixOS, an open source functional package manager and a Linux distribution based upon it;...
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Snap (software) (redirect from Snappy (package manager))
portal Flatpak AppImage Nix Portable application creators ROX uses directories (AppDirs) as application bundles. List of Linux package management systems "snapcore...
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though it remains disabled by default. Virtual Machine Manager comes as the virt-manager package in: Arch Linux CentOS Debian (since lenny) Fedora (since...
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Package format is a type of archive containing computer programs and additional metadata needed by package managers; an instance of this type of archive...
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the NanoNote. Additionally there is NanoNixOS, a cross-compiled distribution based on the Nix package manager. After the 2010 introduction of the Ben...
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Cabal (software) (redirect from Cabal software packaging)
applications and libraries) is a type of package manager to aid in packaging and distributing software packages, in the forms of application software and...
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September 2016). "How Software Installation & Package Managers Work On Linux". How-To Geek. "The history of *nix package management". 14 August 2017. Archived...
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supported formats list depends on distribution package maintainer Can be done in two steps "Two-pane file manager for Windows with symlink and large file support"...
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overlay. The package used by NixOS is available for use on other distributions, due to the distribution-agnostic nature of its package manager, Nix. Other operating...
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Linux, Debian, Fedora Linux, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Source Mage, openSUSE, Mageia, NixOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. awesome versions 1.0 through 1.3 (September–October...
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Kiwix (section Package managers and app stores)
and US prison education programs. Kiwix is available in the native package managers of most Linux distributions. From 2014 to 2020, it was absent, due...
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Haskell Platform (section Packages included)
similar to Lex Happy, a parser generator, similar to Yacc Cabal, a package manager Haddock, a documentation tool hsc2hs, a preprocessor for binding Haskell...
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Repology". Retrieved 5 March 2025. "Netboot - NixOS Wiki". "Nix - NixOS 22.05 manual". "OpenELEC.tv/packages at master · OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv · GitHub"....
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Midnight Commander (category Free file managers)
Far Manager port for *nix systems ranger, a file manager based on ncurses and python Norton Commander-inspired software Comparison of file managers Bezroukov...
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round-up of Linux/*nix in 2006 that Pardus is one of the distros he was most impressed by that year "... thanks to unique package management ideas, innovative...
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Retrieved 18 April 2025. "Find binary packages". voidlinux.org. Retrieved 18 April 2025. "Comparison of NixOS setups - NixOS Wiki". "GeckoLinux LXQt - GeckoLinux...
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