eldritch horrors
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this halves sandbox launch overhead, reducing the build time for 3000 trivial runCommand derivations on our machine from 80 seconds to 44s. as a nice side effect we also get better error message propagation in some cases, most notably setgroups failing when run in lix sandboxes. Change-Id: Ia7c50a844915d9b8a20475b90b2d0179fd2fff34
Lix
Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
Read more about us at https://lix.systems.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Lix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -sSf -L https://install.lix.systems/lix | sh -s -- install
For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to set up a development environment and build Lix from source.
Additional Resources
- The Lix reference manual:
- Our wiki
- Matrix - #space:lix.systems
License
Lix is released under LGPL-2.1-or-later.