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The Polyglot NixOS

by julian x86.lol published 2025-12-191 min read

Recently a colleague mentioned building NixOS images that run unchanged on multiple architectures. Given the past adventures on this blog with systemd-repart and cross-compiling NixOS, I decide to give this a go.

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