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		chongli on March 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fucking Shell Scripts No need for that. The configuration management of NixOS is baked right into the installation procedure. This makes it super simple to install a fresh machine completely from the configuration.nix file that you've developed over time.

herokusaki on March 15, 2014 [–]

Well, with an OpenVZ VPS, the most common variety these days, you'd have to have it offered by the provider.

chongli on March 15, 2014 | [–]

Ahh, I would never use a VPS that didn't let me use my own OS install image.

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