Blog — Bootstrapping

The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down

Nisan 26, 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

Nisan 12, 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%

Haziran 15, 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

Aralık 16, 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%

Ekim 8, 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

Şubat 22, 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

Aralık 11, 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…