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possible to easily roll back the entire configuration of the system to
an earlier state. Also, users can install software without root
privileges. For more information and downloads, see the <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
</simplesect>
@ -257,14 +257,15 @@ xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
<section><title>About us</title>
<para>Nix was developed at the <link
<para>Nix was originally developed at the <link
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/">Department of Information and
Computing Sciences</link>, Utrecht University by the <link
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Trace/WebHome">TraCE
project</link>. The project is funded by the Software Engineering
Research Program <link
project</link> (2003-2008). The project was funded by the Software
Engineering Research Program <link
xlink:href="http://www.jacquard.nl/">Jacquard</link> to improve the
support for variability in software systems.</para>
support for variability in software systems. Further funding is now
provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project.</para>
</section>
@ -299,24 +300,24 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</para>
<para>Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of
papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing
a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment</citetitle>
discusses the hashing mechanism used to ensure reliable dependency
identification and non-interference between different versions and
variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix:
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix:
A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment</citetitle>
gives a more general discussion of Nix from a system-administration
perspective. The CBSE 2005 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient
Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model
</citetitle> is about transparent patch deployment in Nix. The SCM-12
paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'>
xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'>
Service Configuration Management</citetitle> shows how services (e.g.,
web servers) can be deployed and managed through Nix. A short
overview of NixOS is given in the HotOS XI paper <citetitle
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely
xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely
Functional System Configuration Management</citetitle>. The Nix
homepage has <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/docs/papers.html">an up-to-date list
@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ Purely Functional Software Deployment Model</citetitle>, which
contains most of the papers listed above.</para>
<para>Nix has a homepage at <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/"/>.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>.</para>
</section>

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<surname>Dolstra</surname>
</personname>
<affiliation>
<orgname>Utrecht University</orgname>
<orgdiv>Faculty of Science, Department of Information and Computing Sciences</orgdiv>
<orgname>Delft University of Technology</orgname>
<orgdiv>Department of Software Technology</orgdiv>
</affiliation>
</author>
@ -24,10 +24,11 @@
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2008</year>
<holder>Eelco Dolstra</holder>
</copyright>
<date>September 2007</date>
<date>June 2008</date>
</info>

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<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Download a source tarball or RPM from <link
xlink:href='http://nix.cs.uu.nl/'/>. Build source
xlink:href='http://nixos.org/'/>. Build source
distributions using the regular sequence:
<screen>
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<screen>
$ nix-channel --add \
http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable</screen>
</para></listitem>

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<para>This section provides solutions for some common problems. See
the <link xlink:href="https://bugs.cs.uu.nl/browse/NIX">Nix
the <link xlink:href="http://bugs.strategoxt.org/browse/NIX">Nix
bug tracker</link> for a list of currently known issues.</para>