George is an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying computer science and physics. He has used Nix for cross compiling to embedded systems in space, creating dev environments for CTFs, and making his install of macOS as indistinguishable from GNU/Linux as possible.

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Deploying proprietary software with Nix or: how I learned to stop worrying and start loving vmTools

Are you tired of reverse engineering poorly written Perl scripts to get that annoying dependency to work on a modern version of Linux?
Does your lab have a RHEL VM named DO_NOT_DELETE_ME.qcow used for one piece of legacy HPC software?
If so, it may be high time to tame your gnarly software stack with Nix. Join me for a discussion on using Nix to package the seemingly unpackageable!

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