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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt (discourse.nixos.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Great achievement by the NixOS Developers. Congratulations!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In general nix packages are not reproducible in the sense that the output will be bit-for-bit identical.

A large amount aren't but, OTOH, a large amount also are because Nix does almost everything it can to set up an environment without easily preventable sources of non-determinism such as general filesystem access, networking or other means of communication with some uncontrolled system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reading this thread I am even more confused about Linux in general.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

If you have questions, feel free to ask.