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+Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for [Nix](hhttp://nixos.org/nix/) package
+manager. Nixpkgs also includes [NixOS](http://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code.
+
+* [NixOS installation instructions](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#idm139984689550080)
+* [Manual (How to write packages for Nix)](http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/)
+* [Manual (NixOS)](http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/)
+* [Continuous build](http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined)
+* [Tests](http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/trunk-combined/tested#tabs-constituents)
+* [Mailing list](http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev)
+* [IRC - #nixos on freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos)