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* manual: Contributing -> Development, Hacking -> Building what's currently called "hacking" are really instructions for setting up a development environment and compiling from source. we have a contribution guide in the repo (which rightly focuses on GitHub workflows), and the material in the manual is more about working on the code itself. since we'd otherwise have three headings that amount to "Building Nix", this change also moves the "classic Nix" instructions to the top. we may want to reorganise this in the future, and bring contributor-oriented information closer to the code, but for now let's stick to more accurate names to ease navigation.
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# Nix
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[](https://opencollective.com/nixos)
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[](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/actions)
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Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package
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management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual)
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for more details.
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## Installation and first steps
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Visit [nix.dev](https://nix.dev) for [installation instructions](https://nix.dev/tutorials/install-nix) and [beginner tutorials](https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps).
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Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual).
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## Building and developing
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Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to [set up a development environment and build Nix from source](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/building.html).
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## Contributing
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Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
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## Additional resources
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Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis [The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model](https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf), published 2006.
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Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
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- [The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org](https://nixos.org/)
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- [Official documentation on nix.dev](https://nix.dev)
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- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)
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- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
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- [Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)
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- [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org)
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## License
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Nix is released under the [LGPL v2.1](./COPYING).
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