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Arnout Engelen pushed to branch master at <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/reproducible-website">Reproducible Builds / reproducible-website</a>
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<span> by Arnout Engelen </span> <i> at 2023-11-08T15:04:04+01:00 </i>
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<td class="line_content new" style="padding: inherit;" bgcolor="#ecfdf0"><pre style='display: block; font-size: 14px; color: #333238; position: relative; font-family: "GitLab Mono", "JetBrains Mono", "Menlo", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Liberation Mono", "Consolas", "Ubuntu Mono", "Courier New", "andale mono", "lucida console", monospace; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: inherit; border-radius: 2px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: inherit solid #dcdcde;'>+<span id="LC61" class="line" lang="markdown">On the <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">NixOS Discourse instance</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://discourse.nixos.org/<span class="idiff left right addition" style="background-color: #c7f0d2;">t/nixos-reproducible-builds-minimal-installation-iso-successfully-independently-rebuilt/34756</span></span><span class="p">)</span>, Arnout Engelen (<span class="ge" style="font-style: italic;">*raboof*</span>) announced that NixOS have created an independent, bit-for-bit identical rebuilding of the <span class="sb" style="color: #d14;">`nixos-minimal`</span> image that is used to install NixOS. <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">In their post</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-reproducible-builds-minimal-installation-iso-successfully-independently-rebuilt/34756</span><span class="p">)</span>, Arnout details what exactly can be reproduced, and even includes some of the history of this endeavour:</span>
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