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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by outworlder on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:02PM (#28532049)
Doesn't seem to be the case. They are using Nix too(the package manager), but I couldn't see other similarities.

I think they are completely different from NixOS. For starters, they want to run every app inside crosvm.

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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @06:44PM (#28532535)
From their Design page:

> Spectrum will, for now, be a Linux-based system, derived from NixOS.

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