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What is Nix and why you should try it

by Richard Ipsum yakking.branchable.com published Wed, 19 Ju4 min read

Normally our Unix systems organise the file system in a structure called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Installing into an FHS has limitations, what would happen if we want to install, for example, two different versions of ruby at the same time? Typically this isn't possible without explicitly specifying a…

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