182
submitted 1 year ago by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Great achievement by the NixOS Developers. Congratulations!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

If you have questions, feel free to ask.

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
182 points (96.9% liked)

Linux

48376 readers
846 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS