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Re:Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of... by pxc on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:23PM (#37780597)
Nixpkgs is a distribution, as is NixOS. Neither of those things is Nix, but it's an easy mistake to mentally correct when interpreting someone charitably. That said, GP didn't give you much to go off of.

As for security, it's worth noting here that there are Nix-native tools for generating MicroVMs as well, if that's what folks are after with Kata and Firecracker.

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Re:Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of... by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:34PM (#37786300)
Nixpkgs isn’t really a distribution, but something relatively new (although a bit like FreeBSD ports and Gentoo’s portage): it’s a collection of build scripts designed to make it possible to build software cross-platform in a reproducible way.
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Re:Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of... by pxc on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:46PM (#37786931)
Portage and *BSD ports systems are certainly software distributions. They're just source-based distributions.

Nixpkgs includes the same kind of reuse and integration and patching that you see in other kinds of software distributions, like Linux distros or Conda.

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Re:Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of... by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:12PM (#37797914)
In this context I assumed “distribution” meant “operating system distribution”
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Re:Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of... by pxc on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:25AM (#37817139)
Ah! Got you.
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