top | item 38293564 Upgrade Your Development Environments with Devbox 6 points| pushtheenvelope | 2 years ago |alan.norbauer.com 2 comments order hn newest cabirum|2 years ago > There are no VMs or containers> an operating system (NixOS)> Nix is there under the covers, but you don’t need to know anything aboutHow exactly does Nix run without using containers or VMs? object-a|2 years ago Devbox is using Nix the Package Manager, not Nix the Operating System. The Nix Package Manager can run on macOS and Linux without needing a container or VM, since it installs the packages natively.
cabirum|2 years ago > There are no VMs or containers> an operating system (NixOS)> Nix is there under the covers, but you don’t need to know anything aboutHow exactly does Nix run without using containers or VMs? object-a|2 years ago Devbox is using Nix the Package Manager, not Nix the Operating System. The Nix Package Manager can run on macOS and Linux without needing a container or VM, since it installs the packages natively.
object-a|2 years ago Devbox is using Nix the Package Manager, not Nix the Operating System. The Nix Package Manager can run on macOS and Linux without needing a container or VM, since it installs the packages natively.
cabirum|2 years ago
> an operating system (NixOS)
> Nix is there under the covers, but you don’t need to know anything about
How exactly does Nix run without using containers or VMs?
object-a|2 years ago