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Nix is a purely functional package manager.

Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built.

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Can't throttle IO on cgroup. Says "No such device" when device exists. What could be wrong?

Instructions I followed: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.html Script I ran: BYTES_PER_SEC=1048576; MAJOR=259 MINOR=1 echo "device name:" udevadm info -rq name /sys/dev/block/$MAJOR:$MINOR …
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What are different among various dot nix files?

I am new to nixos, this is my understanding about configurations Configuration files created by installer /etc/nixos/configuration.nix :: The central point of system description used by nixos-rebuild /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix :: to be…
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Leksah in NixOS 14.12 - fails to install, why?

Leksah in NixOS 14.12 - unstable channel fails to install, why ? [demo@nixos:~]$ nix-channel --list nixpkgs http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable [demo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i leksah installing ‘leksah’ these derivations will be built: …
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Can Nix language be used for simple shell scripting?

I am intrigued by the Nix language, because it is functional and because file paths are first class data types. Can the Nix language be used, in a stand-alone capacity, for simple shell scripting, specifically for calling typical command-line utils…
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