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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…

Coming events

October 17, 2017

Guix will be present on a few venues in the coming weeks: On October 23rd, I (Ludovic Courtès) will be at GPCE , an academic conference co-located…

Back from RSE 2017

September 11, 2017

Last week, I was in Manchester, UK, to attend the second conference of Research Software Engineers, or RSE 2017 for short. I presented on the topic of…

Announcing Guix-HPC

September 5, 2017

Today, Inria, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), and the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) are announcing a joint effort to consolidate GNU Guix for reproducible scientific workflows in high-performance…

Back from BOSC 2017

July 25, 2017

On the 23rd and 24th of July, Pjotr Prins and I visited Prague to attend BOSC 2017 , the 18th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. We combined our…

State of aarch64 on Guix

July 24, 2017

Since the recent 0.13.0 release, Guix supports building software for aarch64 (64-bit ARM architecture). Here’s the current status. Currently aarch64 support in Guix is pretty good, as…

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released

May 22, 2017

We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.13.0! The release comes with GuixSD USB installation images , a virtual machine image of GuixSD…

Running system services in containers

April 14, 2017

At FOSDEM, in the awesome Guile track , I briefly demoed a new experimental GuixSD feature as part my talk on system services : the ability to run system services…

Creating bundles with guix pack

March 20, 2017

Guix just got a new command, dubbed guix pack , which we think many developers will find useful. Last week we were celebrating the release of…

Join GNU Guix for GSoC

March 9, 2017

As in previous years , Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), under the aegis of the GNU Project . We have collected project…

Back from BOB Konferenz 2017

February 25, 2017

The BOB Konferenz 2017 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from Ricardo Wurmus' talk, "Functional…

Back from FOSDEM 2017

February 6, 2017

FOSDEM 2017 concluded. This time, the GNU Guix community participated with 8 talks. An introduction to functional package management with GNU Guix …

Meet Guix at FOSDEM

January 17, 2017

GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM next month with talks on a…

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.12.0 released

December 21, 2016

We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.12.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone…

Reproducible Build Summit, 2nd Edition

December 16, 2016

GNU Guix was present this week at the second Reproducible Build Summit in…

GNU Guix on Hacker Public Radio

December 1, 2016

An interview with Chris Webber at Hacker Public Radio (2015-12-01) on "How awesome is Guix and why will it take over the world". …

Growing Our Build Farm

November 10, 2016

We have received our new server for continuous builds of the GNU Guix system, and are putting the finishing touches on its installation. …

Back from CUFP 2016

September 24, 2016

The Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2016 Workshop concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from…

Back from the Scheme Workshop 2016

September 18, 2016

The 17th Annual Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop 2016 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides …

Back from GBCUW 2016

September 13, 2016

On the 12th of September, I attended the German Bioinformatics Core Unit Workshop , a satellite workshop on behalf of the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2016. I gave…

Back from the GNU Hackers Meeting 2016

August 22, 2016

The GNU Hackers Meeting 2016 took place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from August 18-20 hosted by Inria . GNU Guix maintainer, Ludovic Courtès,…

GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.11.0 released

August 3, 2016

It is a pleasure to announce the new beta release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.11.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install…

GuixSD system tests

June 28, 2016

From its inception, Guix has had a thorough test suite—something that’s not only reassuring, but also the thing that allows for fearless evolution of the code. That…

Back from DConf 2016

May 4, 2016

The DConf 2016 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from Pjoter Prins' lightning talk, "GNU…

GNU Guix welcomes four students for GSoC

April 24, 2016

We are glad to announce that four students will join GNU Guix for the 2016 Google Summer of Code (GSoC): Efraim will hack a …

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.10.0 released

March 29, 2016

We are pleased to announce the new beta release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.10.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install the…

GNOME in GuixSD

March 23, 2016

It’s a feature that many users were waiting for: proper GNOME support in GuixSD. Good news: the forthcoming Guix and GuixSD release will give you…

Guix at LibrePlanet 2016

March 15, 2016

GNU hackers Christopher Allan Webber (whom you may know from the GNU MediaGoblin project ) and David Thompson will be co-presenting "Solving the Deployment Crisis with…

Join GNU Guix for GSoC

March 8, 2016

This year again the GNU Project is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), and Guix is participating under…

Timely delivery of security updates

March 2, 2016

Yesterday, a new version of OpenSSL was released , addressing several serious vulnerabilities, some of which are nicknamed "DROWN" . Like all free software distributions,…