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NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt
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From my understanding, Nix is currently reproducible in that you can easily run an install with a script that gets you set up with the packages and configuration that you want, but the announcement is that they can verify the binaries that they ship are faithful to their source, and haven't been tampered with anywhere in the build pipeline
That is almost word for word would the body of the post says