text:"Like other Nix ecosystems, Lix layers together multiple projects to create a full Lix stack — allowing you to forge your own systems on a base of community work."
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- image:"images/ecosystem-lix.png"
title:"The Lix Package Manager"
text:"The ecosystem's core is the Lix package manager — a community variant of the Nix configuration language and package management system."
button:
label:"view the code"
url:"https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix"
- image:"images/ecosystem-nixpkgs.svg"
title:"Community Packages"
text:"Lix is fully compatible with existing Nix expressions — which means it benefits from the hundreds of thousands of existing community-maintained packages and configurations."
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label:"visit nixpkgs"
url:"https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs"
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title:"Lix-Managed Systems"
text:"Lix can also be used as the core Nix implementation for Nix-based operating systems and system managers, including the full NixOS distribution, as well as system management software like Home Manager or nix-darwin."