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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,…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM!
January 22, 2016
One week to FOSDEM ! This year, there will be no less than six Guix-related talks. This and the fact that we are addressing different…
GNU Guix talk in Boston, MA (USA) on January 20th
January 11, 2016
David Thompson will be giving a talk about Guix on January 20th at the BLU gathering at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). …
Guix starts fundraising campaign with support from the FSF
December 16, 2015
The GNU Guix project is glad to announce its first fundraising campaign, supported by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As the FSF announced today , the campaign’s…
Service composition in GuixSD
November 19, 2015
GuixSD provides a declarative, stateless approach to operating system configuration management. In this context, the mechanism offered to select and compose system services is a crucial one.…
Reproducible builds: a means to an end
November 11, 2015
What we stand for GNU Guix is committed to improving the freedom and autonomy of computer users. This obviously manifests in the fact that GuixSD is…
GNU Guix 0.9.0 released
November 5, 2015
We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.9.0. The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone…
GNU Guix talk in Rennes, France, November 9th
November 2, 2015
Ludovic Courtès will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD in Rennes, France, on November 9th . The event is organized by the three…
Container provisioning with Guix
October 27, 2015
The upcoming release of GNU Guix will feature an implementation of Linux containers named, following Scheme conventions, call-with-container . Containers are a lightweight virtualization technique used…
Guix-Tox talk at PyConFR, October 17th
October 9, 2015
Bonjour ! Cyril Roelandt of Red Hat who works on OpenStack will be giving a talk about Guix-Tox at PyConFR in Pau, France, on October 17th.…
Chris Webber talks about Guix in Chicago, September 30th
September 18, 2015
Chris Webber of MediaGoblin fame will be giving two talks for the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group meeting on September 30th. The…
Porting Guix and GuixSD
September 7, 2015
Quite a lot has happened lately when it comes to porting Guix and GuixSD to other systems. A few weeks ago, Manolis Ragkousis announced…
GNU Guix 0.8.3 released
July 22, 2015
We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.3. The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone…
GSoC update
July 19, 2015
This year Guix was lucky to have 3 GSoC projects , and they have made rather good progress so far: Manolis successfully completed…