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Take the Guix User and Contributor Survey

10 novembre 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

23 juillet 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

10 février 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

19 janvier 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

1 avril 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

23 janvier 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

28 septembre 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

13 juin 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

18 avril 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!

14 février 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

2 février 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

12 janvier 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

6 janvier 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

2 février 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

20 janvier 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!

16 novembre 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

16 octobre 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

4 mai 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

10 janvier 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

12 novembre 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

7 octobre 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

5 octobre 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…