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Comment by bheadmaster

18 hours ago

No, actually Nix is a package manager/system configuration tool. NixOS uses Nix as part of its image.

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xboxnolifes  16 hours ago

No, nix clearly means a Unix-like OS and any other interpretation is wrong, as the context of this thread would suggest.

  • ZenoArrow  6 hours ago

    So your argument is the first usage of a word gets exclusive rights to it? Firstly, that's not how human languages work. Secondly, this would invalidate the Unix claim to "nix" as it's been a word for hundreds of years prior to Unix being invented.

    • johannes1234321  5 hours ago

      It is, but in IT context the association was strong, while Unixes decline and most of the systems with derived naming are historic. But anybody with a background in sysadmin for more than 10 years probably would still have the association. In ten years Linux will probably the only one remaining with the ux-naming (and MacOS X with the single X, which also serves as ten, following MacOS 9)