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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by lcr on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:20PM (#10201846)
It depends, technically a compiler output should be deterministic, but apparently there are a few that aren't, one example is any compiler built on Roslyn[1].

Although I think he might have been pointing out the problem of reproducible builds[2].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/372

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About

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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by taktoa on Friday September 11, 2015 @12:44AM (#10202053)
You should look at NixOS[1] and GuixSD[2].

[1]: https://nixos.org

[2]: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix

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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by straycat on Friday September 11, 2015 @02:45AM (#10202302)
It may also be worth mentioning Baserock[1] here,

[1]: http://wiki.baserock.org/

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