Nix, Nixpkgs and NixOS Explained Simply

which Dro I'm using right now I'm using NX OS looks cool so I guess what's the elevator pitch to NX it is a language it is a package manager and it is an operating system these three separate entities by their powers combined become the Knicks that we kind of hear about a lot you know what I mean and so I use the OS and the package manager and everything on my VM and then on Darwin or my MacBook I use just the package manager so I use Nicks across the board right I use NYX for everything now basically NYX is like kind of the thing I want so you use uh OS that you created not technically but kind of technically nyos is an operating system truly on its own it's its own operating system built off of the Linux kernel you know all that kind of business however it is powered entirely by your configuration so if you can't even install NYX operating system without having some type of basic configuration now to give you a better example of this let's SSH into one of my servers now this is an actual server on my network somewhere and if I pseudo into this and I do CD Etsy what I'm going to Etsy into is nyos and in this folder we will say a configuration.nix file and look it's a my actual configuration of my whole operating system so we have Hardware configurations in here what my Hardware looks like diss network interfaces all that kind of stuff and then and then we have everything else so I set up system D backups we actually have backups that run AWS CLI you can see I've got my boot set to a specific set of latest kernel packages like I can even tell it what version of Kernel packages I want I've got a file system Mount here even packages right look at this system packages with packages Vim W get this is how we install packages to the operating system we don't app get blah blah app get blah blah app get blah blah we don't do that it's declared so we just simply say this is what you have and look firewall how do I enable the firewall bam networking firewall enable done I'm showing you the tip of the iceberg yeah these are just Json like values I showed it to you in the sense of there's a configuration for your host and it does everything for you well NYX doesn't just do it on the operating system level you saw it from a NYX OS level but what I'm showing you now is it from a package level of now I want to just build one specific package that I could install on that NYX OS operating system so NYX traverses every layer of the stack it builds the packages for you it allows you to ship those packages with its package manager and then it allows you to install those packages on to hosts using either the package manager or NYX OS operating system when we talk about like what it has control over it has control over the Bas it has control over it has control over the packages it has control over the package manager and it has control over the operating system optionally as well I would love to go into it more but go check out the YouTube the reason why I say that is because I actually went through a whole series on Nicks where I talk about the basics of the language development shell and input patterns I talk about introduction steps into ncks in this series also chat listen we have a Discord full of ncks people and people who are interested and want to learn Nick if you guys want to check that stuff out I highly recommend it

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