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Guix provides thousands of packages which include desktop environments, applications, system tools, programming languages and their data and other digital artifacts which work as the building blocks for creating reproducible shell environments, containers and systems for different computing needs.

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Use Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.

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Guix is a GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to use, study, modify, and share Guix and all the packages it provides.

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You can use Guix on top of any GNU/Linux distribution of your preference. It won't clash with your distro's package manager.

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A complete GNU operating system harnessing all the capabilities of the Guix software. Spawned by Guix itself.

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Instructional Videos

Playlist: Packaging
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Blog

Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1)

January 16, 2025

The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in! This is the first time the Guix community has run this type of survey, and we're…

Adding a fully-bootstrapped Mono

December 29, 2024

We used to have a Mono package. It was introduced on August 8 2016 by commit 763b3d50b6249b43fceda51445bbeb1f5f5fd7d0, at Mono version 4.4.1.0, but it was later discovered in…

The Shepherd 1.0.0 released!

December 12, 2024

Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think…

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