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the thesis is still the defining document with all the motivation and explanations. adding it here for greater visibility. also more emphasis and clarity around the community aspect. the hydra build job seems a bit arbitrary right there. may be better for the contributing guide.
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# Nix
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[](https://opencollective.com/nixos)
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[](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/actions)
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Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package
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management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual)
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for more details.
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## Installation and first steps
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Visit [nix.dev](https://nix.dev) for [installation instructions](https://nix.dev/tutorials/install-nix) and [beginner tutorials](https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps).
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Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nixos.org/nix/manual).
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## Building and developing
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See our [Hacking guide](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/contributing/hacking.html) in our manual for instruction on how to
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set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
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## Contributing
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Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
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## Additional resources
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Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis [The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model](https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf), published 2006.
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Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
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- [The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org](https://nixos.org/)
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- [Official documentation on nix.dev](https://nix.dev)
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- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)
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- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
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- [Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
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- [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
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## License
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Nix is released under the [LGPL v2.1](./COPYING).
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