About this project

Nixpkgs is a large collection of software packages (over 140,000) that can be installed using the Nix package manager. It also implements NixOS, a purely-functional Linux distribution. The repository contains Nix expressions, build scripts, and NixOS modules that define how to build and configure software. It includes manuals for NixOS, Nixpkgs, and the Nix package manager. The project is actively developed with community contributions via GitHub. Continuous integration is handled by Hydra, and built artifacts are published to a binary cache. The repository is licensed under the MIT License, which applies to the repository files themselves, not the packages built from them.