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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…

Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix

July 1, 2015

Our paper entitled Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix was accepted for RepPar , a workshop on reproducibility in parallel computing: …

GNU Guix 0.8.2 released

May 14, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.2. The release comes both with tarballs, which allow you to install…

GNU Guix talk at OpenTechSummit, Berlin, May 14th

May 12, 2015

Ricardo Wurmus will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD at the OpenTechSummit in Berlin, Germany, on May 14th. The talk…

GNU Guix welcomes three students for GSoC

May 2, 2015

GNU Guix got 3 slots for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), as part of GNU, which participates as an organization. So we are pleased to welcome…

GNU Guix recruits for GSoC

March 13, 2015

This year again Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the GNU Project . If you are…

GNU Guix 0.8.1 released

January 29, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.1. The release comes both with a source tarball, which allows you…

GNU Guix at FOSDEM

January 27, 2015

Guix will be present at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, with a talk entitled "The Emacs of Distros" this Saturday, at 3PM, in room H.1302. The…

GNU Guix ported to ARM and other niceties of the new year

January 9, 2015

A new port of GNU Guix to ARM using the "hard float" ABI has just landed , thanks to the hard work of Mark H Weaver and…

GNU Guix 0.8 released

November 18, 2014

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8. The release comes both with a source tarball, which allows you…

Guix at the 2014 GNU Hackers Meeting

October 11, 2014

The Guix talk of this summer's GNU Hackers Meeting is now available (get the slides ). DOWNLOAD VIDEO (WebM, 60 minutes) …

Join us for a Guix hackathon on Sep. 27-28!

September 16, 2014

The GNU Guix project is organizing a hackathon on September 27th and 28th, 2014. The hackathon will take place primarily on-line, on the #guix IRC channel on…

Emacs as a general-purpose package manager

September 4, 2014

GNU Guix , the package manager written for the GNU system, now has a neat Emacs user interface! It offers a visual, user-friendly alternative to the…

GNU Guix 0.7 released

July 25, 2014

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.7. This release is an important milestone for the project since it…

Guix at OpenBio Codefest 2014

July 13, 2014

On Wednesday, July 9th, David Thompson gave a brief introduction to GNU Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon . The objective of the Codefest…

GNU dmd 0.2 released

July 8, 2014

GNU dmd 0.2 has been released . It provides new features such as the ability to load new definitions for existing services, as well…

GNU Guix 0.6 released

April 9, 2014

We are pleased to announce the sixth alpha release of GNU Guix . This release provides a bunch of new features, among other things:…

GNU Guix looks for GSoC students

February 27, 2014

This year again Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the GNU Project. If you are an …

One week to FOSDEM!

January 25, 2014

FOSDEM takes place next week. We'll be giving a talk about Guix and the GNU system on Sunday at noon, in the …

GNU Guix 0.5 released

December 11, 2013

We are pleased to announce the fifth alpha release of GNU Guix . The highlights are: Port to the Loongson…

GNU dmd 0.1 released

December 2, 2013

GNU dmd 0.1 has been released , providing many improvements and bug fixes. GNU dmd is a dependency-based service manager meant to…

Distro of the Linux-based GNU system ported to MIPS

October 28, 2013

The Guix-based distro has been ported to MIPS64 , specifically to the Loongson processors notably found in the free-software-friendly Yeeloong laptops . …

GNU Guix 0.4 released; happy birthday, GNU!

September 27, 2013

We are pleased to celebrate GNU's 30th anniversary with the fourth alpha release of GNU Guix . The highlights are: …