zix

⚠️ This project is in its very early stages.

We need your suggestions.

Description

A reimagining of Nix that aims to address several of Nix's drawbacks, such as its non-FHS store layout, steep learning curve, and other usability issues.

Inspiration

• Nix: for its strong declarative model.
• Guix: for design differences that provide useful alternatives.
• Apache BuildStream: for its container and layer-based build process.

Current ideas / design goals

• Use Lua for configuration, leveraging its extensibility and rich ecosystem, which includes languages like Fennel and Teal.
• Content organized as layers in the store.
• Build processes separated into process units, forming pipeline-like stages with well-defined inputs and outputs.
• A uniform, extensible configuration data structure that provides a consistent modification API.
• Use OverlayFS for building and composing layers.
• Provide processes to copy or link artifacts from the store.
• May leverage bootc where appropriate.

Other part of this project

• zix-daemon

Links that may be useful

• nix2container
• ciel
• Universal Blue Project — examples of distributions that already use bootc