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Take the Guix User and Contributor Survey
November 10, 2024
To understand the views of the Guix community we're running a survey that we'd love you to take part in! The Guix User and Contributor Survey …
The European Union must keep funding free software
July 23, 2024
Guix is the fruit of a combination of volunteer work by an amazing number of people, work paid for by employers, but also work sponsored by public institutions. The…
Guix Days 2024 and FOSDEM recap
February 10, 2024
Guix contributors and users got together in Brussels to explore Guix's status, chat about new ideas and spend some time together enjoying Belgian beer! Here's a recap of…
Guix at FOSDEM 2024
January 19, 2024
It's not long to FOSDEM 2024, where Guixers will come together to learn and hack. As usual there's some great talks and opportunities to meet other users and contributors. …
Reinstating an iconic error message
April 1, 2023
Software development is a social process. What might be a “bug” for someone might well be a “feature” for someone else. The Guix project rediscovered it the hard…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 23, 2023
GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM next week, February 4th and 5th. This is the first time since the pandemic that FOSDEM takes place again “in the…
Wrapping up Ten Years of Guix in Paris
September 28, 2022
Two weeks ago, some of us were in Paris, France, to celebrate ten years of Guix ! The event included 22 talks and 12 lightning talks, covering topics…
Celebrating 10 years of Guix in Paris, 16–18 September
June 13, 2022
It’s been ten years of GNU Guix ! To celebrate, and to share knowledge and enthusiasm, a birthday event will take place on September 16–18th, 2022 , in…
10 years of stories behind Guix
April 18, 2022
It’s been ten years today since the very first commit to what was already called Guix—the unimaginative name is a homage to Guile and Nix , which…
Online Guix Day Conference: schedule released!
February 14, 2022
The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the second online Guix Days Conference on Saturday and Sunday, 19 & 20 February 2022 . This conference is open…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
February 2, 2022
As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM this week-end, February 5th and 6th. Due to the pandemic, FOSDEM takes place on-line for the second year, but…
Announcing the second online Guix Days
January 12, 2022
The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the second online Guix Days Conference on 19 & 20 February 2022 . This conference is open to everyone and…
GNU Guix maintainer rotation
January 6, 2022
For some time already, Ludovic and Marius have voiced their desire to step down from the Guix maintainers collective. An email announcing the news and calling for new…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
February 2, 2021
As usual, GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM on February 6th and 7th. Due to the pandemic, this year’s edition takes place on-line. The downside is…
Adding translations to Guix’ website
January 20, 2021
As part of GNU , Guix aims to bring freedom to computer users all over the world, no matter the languages they (prefer to) speak. For example, Guix…
Online Guix Day Conference: schedule released!
November 16, 2020
The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd . This conference is open to everyone ( no registration…
Announcing the first online Guix Day Conference
October 16, 2020
The Guix hackers are very happy to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd . This conference is open to everyone and will be…
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…
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…
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 …
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…