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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Announcing Lix 2.91 "Dragon's Breath" (lix.systems)

submitted 1 month ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Lix is a Nix implementation focused on reliability, predictability, friendliness, developed by a community of people from around the world. We have long term plans to incrementally evolve Nix to work in more places, to make it more reliable and secure, and to update the language and semantics to correct past mistakes and reduce errors, all the while providing an amazing tooling experience.

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[–] gramgan@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone using this? I can’t tell what problems it actually solves for the end user.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've started using it on my secondary machine, during the 2.90 beta cycle. Fundamentally, you don't get anything different yet. It's marginally faster, and fixes some bugs

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are there and plans for improving/writing documentation? This was always a lacking area for nix

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

No clue, i'm just some dude online