Suricata

NixOS (https://nixos.org/) is Linux operating system that allow dynamic environment to be setup for specific tasks.

The usage of `nix-shell`, for example, allows a user to get everything installed to be able to build a suricata in one command.

A typical session on a system with no devel tools installed will be:

• git clone suricata.git
• cd suricata
• nix-shell
• ./autogen.sh
• ./configure
• make