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Into the Nix ecosystem (Interview)

Apr 20, 2021

55:33

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The Corp Tenant of Reproducible Builds

04:26

How Does Firefox Know Not to Garbage Collect My Profiles?

01:31

Do You Think Nix Is a Devops Toolkit?

03:28

Introduction

2min

The Nicks of Devtols - What Is It?

2min

What Was the Purpose of Nix?

2min

What Was It That Got You a Year Later?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Ap Ged and Apt Ged?

2min

Nex Os

3min

Is There a Way to Manage a Bunch of Packages?

4min

The Corp Tenant of Reproducible Builds

4min

Using Nix to Install Fire Fox

5min

10.

How to Install a Package Manager Using a Slash Nick Slash Store

2min

11.

How Does Lennox Multi User Support Work?

2min

12.

How Does Firefox Know Not to Garbage Collect My Profiles?

2min

13.

Is Nix Reproducible?

5min

14.

Do You Think Nix Is a Devops Toolkit?

3min

15.

Docker and Nick - Is That the Way to Go?

3min

16.

Is There a Remote Deployment?

2min

17.

What's Happening Around Nix?

5min

18.

Is There a Lot of Growth in the Nix Ecosystem?

2min

19.

Nik Es Manuals - Where to Start?

3min

This week we’re talking about Nix with Domen Kožar. The Nix ecosystem is a DevOps toolkit that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Nix helps you make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Domen is writing the Nix ecosystem guide at nix.dev and today he takes us on a deep dive on all things Nix.

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