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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: …
Join Guix for an on-line hackathon on Sep. 28-29!
September 18, 2013
GNU Guix joins other projects in celebrating GNU's 30th anniversary . Join the #guix channel of the Freenode IRC network for a…
Back from the GNU Hackers Meeting
September 2, 2013
The GNU Hackers Meeting took place last week in Paris. As usual, it was a nice place to meet fellow hackers, grow new ideas, and…
GNU Guix 0.3 released
July 17, 2013
The third alpha release of GNU Guix is available. The highlights are: Binary packages are now continuously built for…
Guix gets cross-compilation support
June 26, 2013
Recently , Guix gained cross-compilation support. What this means is that existing package definitions can be reused to cross compile packages. So for…
Back from the European Lisp Symposium
June 5, 2013
The European Lisp Symposium (ELS) is over now, and it’s been pleasant experience: thoughtful discussions, beautiful city, and parentheses all around. Thanks to all the…
Guix at the European Lisp Symposium
May 21, 2013
A paper presenting the design of Guix's Scheme API and packaging language has been accepted for the 2013 European Lisp Symposium (ELS) . ELS…
GNU Guix 0.2 released
May 12, 2013
The second alpha release of GNU Guix is available. It comes with a number of new features, notably: The "guix…
Guix & GSoC
April 12, 2013
Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code under GNU's umbrella. If you are an eligible student , your contributions to GNU's package manager…
Boot-to-Guile!
February 16, 2013
As a contribution to Guile's birthday potluck , Guix has been extended with the infrastructure to build a Boot-to-Guile QEMU disk image . …
GNU Guix 0.1 released!
January 18, 2013
Version 0.1 of the GNU Guix functional package manager and its baby distribution of user-land software has been released. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00191.html for the original announcement.…
Introducing Guix, a package manager and distro for GNU
November 22, 2012
GNU Guix is an on-going project to build a purely functional package manager and free software distribution of the GNU system. In addition…
Functional Package Management for the People
July 20, 2012
GNU Hackers Meeting in Düsseldorf , 2012. The following is the video of the presentation "Guix, functional package management for the people, and for GNU?", by Ludovic…
The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
January 18, 2006
Eelco Dolstra's seminal PhD thesis about the Nix package manager, which Guix is based on . Download (PDF). …