Tag: Nixos

An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners

For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.

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Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model...