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19 points by ptx on Oct 9, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This description makes it seem like Guix still takes 60MB to bootstrap, but that is old news. Currently the bootstrap binary for the entire distribution is 357 bytes[0]! An impressive accomplishment. This is the direction that all distributions should be going to avoid Trusting Trust style back doors.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...


"GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System. "




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