Docs | Introduction to Minnows
Minnows is similar to NixOS in some ways—and deeply inspired by it—but ultimately has different goals. Whereas NixOS is a kind of Swiss Army knife for building Linux systems of all kinds, including highly customized developer workstations, Minnows is focused on running services in production environments of all kinds. Get started Some core benefits of Minnows: There are a few core concepts to be aware of when creating your own systems: Check out the full example Minnows configuration below to see what this all looks like in code. In Minnows, platforms are ways that you can run your system. Platforms combine hardware support with tooling. Minnows currently offers two, in-tree, with others available as flakes: While platforms define how your system is run, flows define things that your system can do. Flows can be things like one-off jobs or long-running processes like web servers. Flows must be valid systemd units. Flow configurations are split up into two components: Flows can depend on