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GNU Guix 1.0.0 released
May 2, 2019
We are excited to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.0.0! The release comes with ISO-9660 installation
images ,
a virtual machine
image ,
and with tarballs to install
Connecting reproducible deployment to a long-term source code archive
March 29, 2019
GNU Guix can be used as a “package manager” to install and upgrade
software packages as is familiar to GNU/Linux users, or as an
environment manager, but it can also provision
Documentation video creation
March 15, 2019
Over the last few months, I have been working as an
Outreachy intern with the GNU Guix crowd
to develop videos presenting and documenting the project.
My goal in this
Guix Days: Bootstrapping ARM
February 22, 2019
During the Guix
Days before
FOSDEM , some of us discussed bootstrapping
on ARM architectures. We focused on how to port Mes to ARM. This
post consists
QA on non-Intel at Guix Days
February 7, 2019
During the second day of Guix Days (a FOSDEM fringe
event ) we split up into smaller working groups
based on our areas of interest. I led a group
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 28, 2019
As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM
in the coming days with a couple of talks: Saturday afternoon, Building a whole distro
Reproducible Builds Summit, 4th edition
December 21, 2018
As it
has
become
tradition ,
a sizeable delegation of Guix developers attended this year's
Reproducible Builds
Summit in Paris a
little over one week ago. In
Bootstrapping Rust
December 11, 2018
Slowly, systems programming languages are getting better in the sense
of giving more guarantees and automating what can be automated without
downsides. Rust is one of the more promising
Back from SeaGL 2018
December 10, 2018
SeaGL 2018 has concluded. Thank you to everyone in the local Seattle
community who came to participate! As previously announced , Chris Marusich gave
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.16.0 released
December 6, 2018
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD,
version 0.16.0! This release is (hopefully!) the last one before 1.0—we
have been closing most key
GNU Guix receives donation from the Handshake project
December 3, 2018
Just a few days after it turned
six ,
Guix received a great birthday present: the Handshake
project , which works on the design and
implementation of a decentralized naming
A packaging tutorial for Guix
October 10, 2018
Introduction GNU Guix stands out as the hackable package manager, mostly because it uses
GNU Guile , a powerful high-level programming language, one of the
Join GNU Guix through Outreachy
October 4, 2018
We are happy to announce that for the second time this year, GNU Guix offers a
three-month internship through Outreachy ,
the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in
Upcoming Talk: "Everyday Use of GNU Guix"
September 29, 2018
At SeaGL 2018, Chris Marusich will present a
talk introducing GNU Guix to people of all skill levels and
backgrounds. SeaGL is an annual GNU/Linux conference in
GSoC 2018 report: Cuirass Web interface
August 13, 2018
For the last three months I have been working with the Guix team as a
Google Summer of Code intern. The title of my project is "GNU Guix
(Cuirass): Adding
Multi-dimensional transactions and rollbacks, oh my!
July 24, 2018
One of the highlights of version
0.15.0
was the overhaul of guix pull ,
the command that updates Guix and its package collection. In Debian
terms,
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released
July 6, 2018
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD,
version 0.15.0! This release brings us close to what we wanted to have
for 1.0, so it’s
Customize GuixSD: Use Stock SSH Agent Everywhere!
May 26, 2018
I frequently use SSH. Since I don't like typing my password all the
time, I use an SSH agent. Originally I used the GNOME Keyring as my
SSH
Tarballs, the ultimate container image format
May 16, 2018
A year ago we introduced guix pack ,
a tool that allows you to create “application bundles” from a set of Guix
package definitions. On your
Paper on reproducible bioinformatics pipelines with Guix
May 9, 2018
I’m happy to announce that the bioinformatics group at the Max
Delbrück Center that I’m working with has
released a preprint of a paper on reproducibility with the
Guix welcomes Outreachy, GSoC, and Guix-HPC interns
April 26, 2018
We are thrilled to announce that five people will join Guix as interns
over the next few months! As part of Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC),
under the umbrella
Guix on Android!
April 24, 2018
Last year I thought to myself: since my phone is just a computer running
an operating system called Android (or Replicant !),
and that Android is based on a
Guix & reproducible builds at LibrePlanet 2018
April 5, 2018
LibrePlanet , the yearly free software
conference organized by the Free Software Foundation, took place a week
ago. Among the many great talks and workshops, David Thompson, a
Join GNU Guix through Outreachy or GSoC
February 19, 2018
We are happy to announce that for the first time this year, GNU Guix
offers a three-month internship through
Outreachy ,
the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free
software and
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 29, 2018
GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM in the
coming days with a couple of talks: The many ways of using Guix
packages
aarch64 build machines donated
January 25, 2018
Good news! We got a present for our build farm in the form of two
SoftIron OverDrive 1000 aarch64 machines donated by ARM Holdings. One
of them is already
Porting GuixSD to ARMv7
December 22, 2017
GuixSD porting to ARMv7 is a difficult topic. There are plenty of
different machines, with specific hardware configurations and
vendor-tuned bootloaders, and ACPI support is still experimental. For
those reasons it
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released
December 7, 2017
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD,
version 0.14.0! The release comes with GuixSD ISO-9660 installation
images ,
a virtual machine image of
GuixSD
Back from GPCE
November 1, 2017
Last week, I was at GPCE
2017 ,
an academic conference focused on generative programming techniques. I
presented Code Staging in
GNU Guix , a paper that discusses
the
Reproducible builds: a status update
October 31, 2017
With the yearly Reproducible Build
Summit starting
today, now’s a good time for an update on what has happened in Guix land
in that area! Isolated build
environments