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Spawns lightweight nixos vms in a shell

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2.2.0 source code.tar.gz	2026-04-23	20.6 kB	0
2.2.0 source code.zip	2026-04-23	26.8 kB	0
README.md	2026-04-23	430 Bytes	0
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Changes

Support systemd-based initrd (#149, fixes [#147]). Scripted initrd remains supported.
New readOnly option for extraMounts and mountHomeReadOnly for the home mount (#144).
New terminfo.fixFSCaseConflicts option to work around broken terminfo lookup on case-insensitive host filesystems (#124).
Nix profile mount now also looks at ~/.local/state/nix/profiles for newer/single-user Nix installs (#149).

Source: README.md, updated 2026-04-23

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