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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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