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Determinate Nix
This repository houses the source for Determinate Nix, a downstream distribution of Nix created and maintained by Determinate Systems. Nix is a powerful language, package manager, and CLI for macOS, Linux, and other Unix systems that enables you to create fully reproducible development environments, to build packages in sandboxed environments, to build entire Linux systems using NixOS, and much more.
Determinate Nix is part of the Determinate platform, which also includes FlakeHub, a secure flake repository with features like FlakeHub Cache, private flakes, and semantic versioning (SemVer) for flakes.
Installing Determinate
You can install Determinate on macOS, non-NixOS Linux, and NixOS.
macOS
On macOS, we recommend using the graphical installer from Determinate Systems. Click here to download and run it.
Linux
On Linux, including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), we recommend installing Determinate Nix using [Determinate Nix Installer][installer]:
curl -fsSL https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install --determinate
NixOS
On NixOS, we recommend following our dedicated installation guide.
Other resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his 2006 PhD thesis, The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model. Today, a worldwide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- Zero to Nix, Determinate Systems' guide to Nix and flakes for beginners
- Nixpkgs, a collection of well over 100,000 software packages that you can build and manage using Nix
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS community on nixos.org
Reference
You can find full reference documentation in the Determinate Nix manual. This resource is a work in progress.
License
Upstream Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1 license. Determinate Nix is also released under LGPL v2.1 in accordance with the terms of the upstream license.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.