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Re:The modern packager’s security nightmare by mroche on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:30PM (#26218919)
> That is, a minimal base system that's built for immutable container images, providing just what's needed to bootstrap the current generation of language-specific build and package systems.

At least for the first half, that sounds sort of like Fedora/Red Hat CoreOS[0], the predecessor CoreOS fork Flatcar Container Linux[1], or the Amazon distribution BottleRocket[2].

[0] https://getfedora.org/en/coreos?stream=stable

[1] https://kinvolk.io/flatcar-container-linux/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/bottlerocket-open-source-os...

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Re:The modern packager’s security nightmare by steveklabnik on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:36PM (#26218985)
Fun thing about BottleRocket relevant to this thread: it uses Cargo as its build system. It's really wild and very interesting and more people should know about it, IMHO.
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