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Linux vs NixOS: What are the differences?
What is Linux? A family of free and open source software operating systems based on the Linux kernel. A clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
What is NixOS? A Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. It is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.
Linux and NixOS can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.
Broadsheet, Deliveroo, and Rightech IoT Cloud are some of the popular companies that use Linux, whereas NixOS is used by Grafted-In, Chill Code, and Takt. Linux has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 192 developers stacks; compared to NixOS, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Netdata introduces Linux eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) monitoring. With this enabled, monitor real-time metrics of Linux kernel functions and actions from the very same monitoring and troubleshooting dashboard used for watching entire systems, or even entire infrastructures.
This collector uses eBPF to monitor system calls inside your operating system’s kernel. For now, the main goal of this plugin is to monitor IO and process management on the host where it is running.
If you have a file (demo.txt) that has 3 columns:
Column-1 Column-2 Column-3
Row-1a Row-2a Row-3a
Row-1b Row-2b Row-3b
Row-1c Row-2c Row-3c
Row-1d Row-2d Row-3d
Row-1e Row-2e Row-3e
and you want to only view the first column of the file in your CLI, run the following:
awk {'print $1'} demo.txt
Column-1
Row-1a
Row-1b
Row-1c
Row-1d
Row-1e
If you want to print the second column of demo.txt, just replace $1 with $2
Pros of Linux
- Open Source17
- Free11
- Reliability8
- Safe5
Pros of NixOS
- Atomic upgrades3
- Declarative system configuration2
- Multi-user package management2
- Reproducible environment2
- Rollback for any changes2
- Cloud Agnostic Deployments1
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