2026-01-28 17:14 UTC
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@Atemu@darmstadt.social 2026-01-28 18:18
@nixos_org @nzbr I read this expectating to find a demonstration of applying the previous work of #GUIX to #nix but this actually goes further! o.o TIL about #live_bootstrap, a minimal binary seed that you can *boot on physical hardware*, *builds a linux distribution from source* and then boots into it. https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap I did not know that this part of the chain had a working solution! Amazing work on integrating Nix into all of that!
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@Atemu@darmstadt.social 2026-01-28 18:39
@nixos_org @nzbr While we're on the topic: work on minimal-bootstrap in #nixpkgs has actually been picked up again since this thesis was written (October 2025). Not only that but, as of a few hours ago, the PR implementing the last step of hooking it up to become the actual bootstrap stdenv in Nixpkgs has been merged! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322 #fullsourcebootstrap #reproduciblebuilds #stage0 #minimalbootstrap #bootstrappablebuilds
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@korkeala@hachyderm.io 2026-01-29 09:33
@nzbr @nixos_org Congrats, nice work!
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@KarlPettersson@mastodon.nu 2026-01-29 19:13
@nzbr @nixos_org Nice! If someone wants to try live-bootstrap with QEMU/bare images generated on a ZFS dataset (and possibly other CoW filesystems), there is a bug in the Python generator scripts which leads to corrupt images. I made a simple fix, which hopefully will be merged. https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/pull/567
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@dunklecat@mastodon.dunklecat.dev 2026-01-31 11:28
@nixos_org @nzbr seems really interesting! Looking forward reading it asap