Discover Guix

Guix comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager.

Graphical log-in screen

Virtual machine started with 'guix system vm'

Sway window manager running wayland

Enlightenment, Inkscape, and Cyrillic text

Xfce desktop environment

GNOME desktop environment

Instructional videos

Playlist: Packaging
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix
Asking for help
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix
Demonstration of the Guix System graphical installer
Published Apr 15, 2020 by GNU Guix
Playlist: Everyday use of GNU Guix
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix

GNU Guix in your field

Read some stories about how people are using GNU Guix in their daily lives.

GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros

If you don't use GNU Guix as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, you still can use it as a package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.

Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.

Blog

The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down

April 26, 2023

We are delighted and somewhat relieved to announce that the third reduction of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been merged in the main branch of Guix! …

Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions

April 19, 2023

Welcome back to Dissecting Guix ! Last time, we discussed monads , the functional programming idiom used by Guix to thread a store connection through a series of store-related…

Reinstating an iconic error message

April 1, 2023

Software development is a social process. What might be a “bug” for someone might well be a “feature” for someone else. The Guix project rediscovered it the hard…

Contact

IRC Channel

Join the #guix channel on the Libera Chat IRC network to chat with the community about GNU Guix or to get help in real-time. …

Info Mailing List

Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). …

Help Mailing List

Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though we also accept other languages.…