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+# Liminix
+
+Līminis + Nix
+
+* Līminis : Latin, genitive declension of limen. "Of the threshold"
+* Nix :  a tool for reproducible and declarative configuration management
+* Liminix : a Nix-based system for configuring consumer wifi routers
+
+## What is this?
+
+This is a reboot/restart of NixWRT: a Nix-based collection of software
+tailored for domestic wifi router or IoT device devices, of the kind
+that OpenWrt or DD-WRT or Gargoyle or Tomato run on.
+
+This is not NixOS-on-your-router: it's aimed at devices that are
+underpowered for the full NixOS experience.
+
+## Running tests
+
+Assuming you have nixpkgs checked out in a peer diretory of this one,
+
+    NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=../nixpkgs:$NIX_PATH ./run-tests.sh