Blog — Functional package management
Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions
19 avril 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 février 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 janvier 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 octobre 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 décembre 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 mai 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 janvier 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 novembre 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 septembre 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 juin 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 novembre 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 juillet 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…