enabled: true id: "ecosystem" content: title: "The Lix Ecosystem" 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." cards: - 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." button: label: "visit nixpkgs" url: "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs" - image: "images/ecosystem-nixpkgs.svg" 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." button: label: "use lix with NixOS" url: "/install"