Original author(s) | Eelco Dolstra |
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Initial release | June 15, 2003 |
Stable release | 2.22.1[1]
/ 10 May 2024 |
Repository | |
Written in | C++,[2] Perl,[2] shell script,[2] Nix,[2] make,[2] Autoconf,[2] Rust,[2] C,[2] Extensible Markup Language[2] |
Platform | Linux, Unix-like |
Type | purely functional package manager, free software, programming language |
License | GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1[3] |
Website | nixos |
Nix is a cross-platform package manager for Unix-like systems, and a tool to instantiate and manage Unix-like operating systems, invented in 2003[4] by Eelco Dolstra.