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								      xml:id="book-nixos-manual">
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								 <info>
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								  <title>NixOS Manual</title>
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								 </info>
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								 <preface xml:id="preface">
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								  <title>Preface</title>
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								  <para>
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								   This manual describes how to install, use and extend NixOS, a Linux
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								   distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix.
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								  </para>
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								  <para>
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								   If you encounter problems, please report them on the
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								   <literal
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								    xlink:href="https://discourse.nixos.org">Discourse</literal> or
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								   on the <link
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								    xlink:href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos">
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								   <literal>#nixos</literal> channel on Freenode</link>. Bugs should be
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								   reported in
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								   <link
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								    xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues">NixOS’
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								   GitHub issue tracker</link>.
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								  </para>
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								    Commands prefixed with <literal>#</literal> have to be run as root, either
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								    requiring to login as root user or temporarily switching to it using
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								    <literal>sudo</literal> for example.
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								   </para>
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								  </note>
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								 </preface>
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								 <appendix xml:id="ch-options">
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								  <title>Configuration Options</title>
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								                xpointer="configuration-variable-list" />
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								 </appendix>
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								 <xi:include href="release-notes/release-notes.xml" />
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								</book>
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