Blog — System services
The Shepherd 1.0.0 released!
December 12, 2024
Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think…
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…
Customize GuixSD: Use Stock SSH Agent Everywhere!
May 26, 2018
I frequently use SSH. Since I don't like typing my password all the time, I use an SSH agent. Originally I used the GNOME Keyring as my SSH…
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…
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.…
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 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…