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Write package definitions in a breeze
24-a de Novembro 2023
More than 28,000 packages are available in Guix today, not counting third-party channels. That’s a lot—the 5th largest GNU/Linux distro ! But it’s nothing if the one…
Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix
9-a de Junio 2023
Hello Guix! I'm Sarthak and I'll be working on implementing Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix as a Google Summer of Code intern under the guidance of Pjotr Prins…
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…
Building Toolchains with Guix
15-a de Marto 2023
In order to deploy embedded software using Guix we first need to teach Guix how to cross-compile it. Since Guix builds everything from source, this means we must teach…
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…
Keeping one’s home tidy
21-a de Marto 2022
How much effort to recreate your work environment when you switch to a new machine? What would it take to roll back to your previous environment once you’ve noticed…
The Big Change
15-a de Decembro 2021
Making cross-cutting changes over a large code base is difficult, but it's occasionally necessary if we are to keep the code base tidy and malleable. With almost 800K source…
Taming the ‘stat’ storm with a loader cache
2-a de Aŭgusto 2021
It was one of these days where some of us on IRC were rehashing that old problem—that application startup in Guix causes a “ stat storm”—and lamenting…
Reproducible data processing pipelines
11-a de Junio 2021
Last week, we at Guix-HPC published videos of a workshop on reproducible software environments we organized on-line. The videos are well worth watching—especially if you’re into reproducible…
Getting bytes to disk more quickly
26-a de Marto 2021
Let’s face it: functional package managers like Guix provide unequaled support for reproducibility and transactional upgrades, but the price to pay is that users often spend a fair amount of…
Securing updates
1-a de Julio 2020
Software deployment tools like Guix are in a key position when it comes to securing the “software supply chain”—taking source code fresh from repositories and providing users with ready-to-use binaries.…
GNU Shepherd user services
17-a de Majo 2020
One of the things which sets Guix apart from other GNU/Linux distributions is that it uses GNU Shepherd instead of the now ubiquitous systemd. A side effect of…
Grafts, continued
6-a de Majo 2020
Guix includes a mechanism called grafts that allows us to provide users with security updates in a timely fashion, even for core packages deep down in the…
Guile 3 & Guix
24-a de Januaro 2020
Version 3.0 of GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language , was released just last week . This is a major milestone for Guile, which gets compiler improvements and…
Spreading the news
12-a de Novembro 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 …
Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial
4-a de Novembro 2019
The outcome of this year's GSoC is a Guile-based programming interface named guix deploy for automatically creating, upgrading, and changing the configurations of machines running the Guix System.…
Towards Guix for DevOps
12-a de Julio 2019
Hey, there! I'm Jakob, a Google Summer of Code intern and new contributor to Guix. Since May, I've been working on a DevOps automation tool for the Guix System, which…
Substitutes are now available as lzip
17-a de Junio 2019
For a long time, our build farm at ci.guix.gnu.org has been delivering substitutes (pre-built binaries) compressed with gzip. Gzip was never the best choice in terms of compression…
Connecting reproducible deployment to a long-term source code archive
29-a de Marto 2019
GNU Guix can be used as a “package manager” to install and upgrade software packages as is familiar to GNU/Linux users, or as an environment manager, but it can also provision…
A packaging tutorial for Guix
10-a de Oktobro 2018
Introduction GNU Guix stands out as the hackable package manager, mostly because it uses GNU Guile , a powerful high-level programming language, one of the…
Multi-dimensional transactions and rollbacks, oh my!
24-a de Julio 2018
One of the highlights of version 0.15.0 was the overhaul of guix pull , the command that updates Guix and its package collection. In Debian terms,…
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…
Guix at the 2014 GNU Hackers Meeting
11-a de Oktobro 2014
The Guix talk of this summer's GNU Hackers Meeting is now available (get the slides ). DOWNLOAD VIDEO (WebM, 60 minutes) …
Guix at the European Lisp Symposium
21-a de Majo 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…