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Announcing #Aux Foundation, a binary bootstrap chain for #Nix!
https://forum.auxolotl.org/t/aux-foundation-is-now-available/885
Aux · Aux Foundation is now available!I’m happy to announce the release of Aux Foundation, a binary bootstrap chain for Nix. This allows us to build a modern, core set of tools (like GCC, Python, etc) from a single ~300-byte binary seed file. Aux Foundation is was made possible by the bootstrapping efforts in Guix as well as the work and help of Emily Trau. Today Aux Foundation provides an i686-linux bootstrap chain. In the future we may be able to provide one for x86_64-linux as well, but certain blockers remain there. For now it ...
As is mentioned in the post, I owe a huge thanks to Emily Trau (who I would ping right now, but Mastodon is timing out on profile fetches so I can't check the username...)
arc) @arichtman @emilyposting thank you!!
@emilyposting @jakehamilton (chanting) Mel-bourne, Mel-bourne
@emilyposting @jakehamilton I mean presumably not the Dees tho, sorry
farming@emilyposting @jakehamilton yea that was a cheap second shot, sorry