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Securing updates
July 1, 2020
Software deployment tools like Guix are in a key position when it comes to securing the “software supply chain”—taking source code fresh from repositories and providing users with ready-to-use binaries.…
Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
June 15, 2020
We are delighted to announce that the second reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released! The initial set of binaries…
GNU Shepherd user services
May 17, 2020
One of the things which sets Guix apart from other GNU/Linux distributions is that it uses GNU Shepherd instead of the now ubiquitous systemd. A side effect of…
Guix welcomes Outreachy and GSoC interns
May 12, 2020
We are thrilled to announce that three people will join Guix as interns over the next few months! As part of Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC), under the umbrella…
Grafts, continued
May 6, 2020
Guix includes a mechanism called grafts that allows us to provide users with security updates in a timely fashion, even for core packages deep down in the…
GNU Guix maintainer collective update
May 4, 2020
This blog post is to announce a change of hands in the Guix co-maintainer collective: Ricardo Wurmus is stepping down from his role, and Mathieu Othacehe will be filling in…
GNU Guix 1.1.0 released
April 15, 2020
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.1.0! The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images , a virtual machine image , and with tarballs to install…
A “Hello World” virtual machine running the Hurd
April 8, 2020
Hello GNU World! There’s been a bit of speculation as to whether our April 1st post was a joke. Part of it was a joke: we’re…
Deprecating support for the Linux kernel
April 1, 2020
Hey, this post was published on April 1st, so take it with a grain of salt! Read the followup for some clarifications. After…
GSoC 2020 and Outreachy May 2020 to August 2020 Status Report II
February 29, 2020
GSoC We are happy to announce that GNU Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), under the aegis of the GNU project . We have collected…
Outreachy May 2020 to August 2020 Status Report I
February 9, 2020
We are happy to announce that for the fourth time GNU Guix offers a three-month internship through Outreachy , the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software and…
Guile 3 & Guix
January 24, 2020
Version 3.0 of GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language , was released just last week . This is a major milestone for Guile, which gets compiler improvements and…
Reproducible computations with Guix
January 14, 2020
This post is about reproducible computations, so let's start with a computation. A short, though rather uninteresting, C program is a good starting point. It computes π in three different…
Join GNU Guix through Outreachy
January 13, 2020
We are happy to announce that for the fourth time 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 10, 2020
As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM on February 1st and 2nd. This year, we’re happy to say that there will be quite a few talks…
Reproducible Builds Summit, 5th edition
December 16, 2019
For several years , the Reproducible Builds Summit has become this pleasant and fruitful retreat where we Guix hackers like to go and share, brainstorm, and hack with…
Guix on an ARM Board
November 27, 2019
Increasingly people discovering Guix want to try it on an ARM board, instead of their x86 computer. There might be various reasons for that, from power consumption to security.…
Running a Guix Xfce Desktop on CentOS 7
November 17, 2019
This tutorial will show how to run a fully fledged Xfce desktop environment installed with Guix on top of an existing GNU/Linux distribution. This guide uses CentOS 7 as…
Spreading the news
November 12, 2019
Like most free software projects, Guix has no shortage of communication channels: there’s this blog , the NEWS file for release notes, a bunch of …
Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial
November 4, 2019
The outcome of this year's GSoC is a Guile-based programming interface named guix deploy for automatically creating, upgrading, and changing the configurations of machines running the Guix System.…
Guix Profiles in Practice
October 25, 2019
Note: An updated version of this article is available in the brand new cookbook . Guix provides a very useful feature that may be…
Insecure permissions on profile directory (CVE-2019-18192)
October 17, 2019
We have become aware of a security issue for Guix on multi-user systems that we have just fixed ( CVE-2019-18192 ). Anyone running Guix on a multi-user system is…
Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by 50%
October 8, 2019
We are delighted to announce that the first reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released! This is a very important…
Joint statement on the GNU Project
October 7, 2019
We, the undersigned GNU maintainers and developers, owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Stallman for his decades of important work in the free software movement. Stallman tirelessly emphasized…
GNU Guix maintainer collective expands
October 5, 2019
In July, we—Ricardo Wurmus and Ludovic Courtès— called for volunteers to join us in maintaining Guix . We are thrilled to announce that three brave hackers responded and that they’re now officially…
Join GNU Guix through Outreachy
October 1, 2019
We are happy to announce that for the third time GNU Guix offers a three-month internship through Outreachy , the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software and…
Towards Guix for DevOps
July 12, 2019
Hey, there! I'm Jakob, a Google Summer of Code intern and new contributor to Guix. Since May, I've been working on a DevOps automation tool for the Guix System, which…
Substitutes are now available as lzip
June 17, 2019
For a long time, our build farm at ci.guix.gnu.org has been delivering substitutes (pre-built binaries) compressed with gzip. Gzip was never the best choice in terms of compression…
Creating and using a custom Linux kernel on Guix System
May 21, 2019
Take note: As of 2021, the code examples in this guide are becoming obsolete. For an up-to-date treatment of this subject, please consult the Cookbook recipe Customizing the Kernel…
GNU Guix 1.0.1 released
May 19, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.0.1. This new version fixes bugs in the graphical installer for the standalone Guix System. The release…