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Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions

19-a de Aprilo 2023

Welcome back to Dissecting Guix ! Last time, we discussed monads , the functional programming idiom used by Guix to thread a store connection through a series of store-related…

Dissecting Guix, Part 2: The Store Monad

20-a de Februaro 2023

Hello again! In the last post , we briefly mentioned the with-store and run-with-store macros. Today, we'll be looking at those in further…

Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations

4-a de Januaro 2023

To a new user, Guix's functional architecture can seem quite alien, and possibly offputting. With a combination of extensive #guix -querying, determined manual-reading, and plenty of source-perusing, they…

Guix Profiles in Practice

25-a de Oktobro 2019

Note: An updated version of this article is available in the brand new cookbook . Guix provides a very useful feature that may be…

Back from SeaGL 2018

10-a de Decembro 2018

SeaGL 2018 has concluded. Thank you to everyone in the local Seattle community who came to participate! As previously announced , Chris Marusich gave…

Customize GuixSD: Use Stock SSH Agent Everywhere!

26-a de Majo 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…

GNU Guix talk in Boston, MA (USA) on January 20th

11-a de Januaro 2016

David Thompson will be giving a talk about Guix on January 20th at the BLU gathering at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). …

GNU Guix talk in Rennes, France, November 9th

2-a de Novembro 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…

Chris Webber talks about Guix in Chicago, September 30th

18-a de Septembro 2015

Chris Webber of MediaGoblin fame will be giving two talks for the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group meeting on September 30th. The…

Back from the European Lisp Symposium

5-a de Junio 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…

Introducing Guix, a package manager and distro for GNU

22-a de Novembro 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

20-a de Julio 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…