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Re:Modus: A language for building Docker/OCI container images by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:27PM (#32338647)
Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager or can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux?
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Re:Modus: A language for building Docker/OCI container images by elikoga on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:16AM (#32344025)
> Do you have to be on NixOS to use the OCI images outputtable by nixpks/nix package manager

No

> can you build OCI images using Nix from Mac/Windows/other non NixOS Linux?

Non NixOS Unix, not Windows yet, unless you use WSL or a VM

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Re:Modus: A language for building Docker/OCI container images by piperswe on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:29PM (#32372534)
They're just normal OCI images, so they can be run by any OCI-compatible container runtime. You can build images from any system running Nix, though you might encounter trouble on non-Linux systems because you may need to cross-compile the packages you use. The build process is exactly the same on any Linux distro (including NixOS and anything else) though.
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