Show HN: Bobr – a rootless content-addressed build system for Linux
Hello. This is my vibe-coded pet project. It’s meant to be a build system like Nix or Yocto. It can work rootless, uses its own namespace-based sandbox runtime, is content-addressed, and builds a Linux system that can be run in QEMU for now. I hope this can be interesting not only to me.
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Source account: Hello. This is my vibe-coded pet project. It’s meant to be a build system like Nix or Yocto. It can work rootless, uses its own namespace-based sandbox runtime, is content-addressed, and builds a Linux system that can be run in QEMU for now. I hope this can be interesting not only to me.
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