Blog — Bootstrapping
The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
26 avril 2023
We are delighted and somewhat relieved to announce that the third reduction of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been merged in the main branch of Guix! …
New Supported Platform: powerpc64le-linux
12 avril 2021
It is a pleasure to announce that support for powerpc64le-linux (PowerISA v.2.07 and later) has now been merged to the master branch of GNU Guix! This means that…
Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
15 juin 2020
We are delighted to announce that the second reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released! The initial set of binaries…
Reproducible Builds Summit, 5th edition
16 décembre 2019
For several years , the Reproducible Builds Summit has become this pleasant and fruitful retreat where we Guix hackers like to go and share, brainstorm, and hack with…
Guix Reduces Bootstrap Seed by 50%
8 octobre 2019
We are delighted to announce that the first reduction by 50% of the Guix bootstrap binaries has now been officially released! This is a very important…
Guix Days: Bootstrapping ARM
22 février 2019
During the Guix Days before FOSDEM , some of us discussed bootstrapping on ARM architectures. We focused on how to port Mes to ARM. This post consists…
Bootstrapping Rust
11 décembre 2018
Slowly, systems programming languages are getting better in the sense of giving more guarantees and automating what can be automated without downsides. Rust is one of the more promising…