Nix and NixOS

The next ScotLUG meeting will be on Thursday 25th June. This month, we have Michael Maclean presenting a talk on Nix and NixOS.

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management.

This talk will present Nix and demonstrate some of the features of Nix that are useful day to day as a developer or administrator. It will also cover present NixOS, and talk about some of the interesting approaches it enables.

This talk will take place online, starting at 7:30PM at http://scotlug.org.uk/meeting/20200625