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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by donio on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:04PM (#27575279)
https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap is another approach, bootstrapping from a tiny binary seed that you could hand-assemble and type in as hex. But it doesn't address the dependency on the underling OS being trustworthy.
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Re:Nixos-unstable’s ISO_minimal.x86_64-Linux is 100% reprodu... by bmwiedemann on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:23AM (#27685189)
There is stage0 by Jeremiah Orians that is designed to be able to bootstrap on hardware that can be built from transistors. Currently it mostly runs in a small VM process that is somewhat harder to subvert.
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