NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS is a research project, it is a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.
NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. The distributions latest release is NixOS 21.05 "Okapi" features significant upgrades to the Linux kernel and GNU Compiler Collection, along with the GNOME, Cinnamon and KDE Plasma desktops. "Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11. In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: Core version changes: GCC 10.3.0, glibc 2.32, default Linux kernel 5.10 - all supported kernels available, MESA 20.1.7 21.0.1; desktop environments - GNOME 3.40, Plasma 5.21.3, KDE Applications 20.12.3, Cinnamon: 4.8.1; programming languages and frameworks - Python optimizations were disabled again; builds with optimizations enabled are not reproducible; optimizations can now be enabled with an option; the linux_latest kernel has been updated to the 5.12 series - it currently is not officially supported for use with the ZFS filesystem
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS is a research project, it is a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.
