An empirical study spanning 6 years reveals that NixOS package build reproducibility increased from 69% to 91%, despite lacking systematic monitoring. While Nix doesn't guarantee bitwise reproducibility, research identifies common causes of non-reproducibility including embedded uname outputs, environment variables, and build IDs.

https://luj.fr/blog/is-nixos-truly-reproducible.html

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