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   Arson, the Copper Flame (nzbr@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 19:05:55 JST Arson, the Copper Flame

   • NixOS

   Just uploaded my bachelor's thesis to GitHub!

   In it, I detail how I created a bootstrap chain for @nixos_org which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed.

   Read the thesis: https://nzbr.github.io/nixos-full-source-bootstrap/thesis.pdf
   Check out the code: https://github.com/nzbr/nixos-full-source-bootstrap
   My post on the NixOS discourse: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-full-source-bootstrap-for-nixos/74801

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     Atemu (atemu@darmstadt.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 19:05:54 JST Atemu

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     • NixOS

     @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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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 20:30:31 JST Janneke

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     • Ekaitz Zarraga 👹
     • NixOS
     • Atemu

     @nzbr @Atemu @nixos_org
     Cc: @civodul @nlnet @guix @ekaitz_zarraga

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     Arson, the Copper Flame (nzbr@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Jan-2026 20:30:33 JST Arson, the Copper Flame

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     • Atemu

     @Atemu @nixos_org

     Nice! Though it's a shame that I didn't manage to publish this earlier -- Could've maybe avoided some duplicate work