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The European Union must keep funding free software

23 липня 2024 року

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…

Source code archiving in Guix: new publication

31 травня 2024 року

We are glad to announce the publication of a new research paper entitled Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible Deployment for the ACM…

Authenticate your Git checkouts!

7 травня 2024 року

You clone a Git repository, then pull from it. How can you tell its contents are “authentic”—i.e., coming from the “genuine” project you think you’re pulling from, written by…

Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment

13 березня 2024 року

Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can …

Fixed-Output Derivation Sandbox Bypass (CVE-2024-27297)

12 березня 2024 року

A security issue has been identified in guix-daemon which allows for fixed-output derivations , such as source code tarballs or Git checkouts, to be corrupted by an unprivileged…

Identifying software

4 березня 2024 року

What does it take to “identify software”? How can we tell what software is running on a machine to determine, for example, what security vulnerabilities might affect it? …

Guix Days 2024 and FOSDEM recap

10 лютого 2024 року

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 січня 2024 року

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. …

Building packages targeting psABIs

14 січня 2024 року

Starting with version 2.33, the GNU C library (glibc) grew the capability to search for shared libraries using additional paths, based on the hardware capabilities of the machine running the…

Write package definitions in a breeze

24 листопада 2023 року

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…

A build daemon in Guile

30 жовтня 2023 року

When using Guix, you might be aware of the daemon . It runs in the background but it's a key component in Guix. Whenever you've been using Guix to…

A new Quality Assurance tool for Guix

12 вересня 2023 року

Maintaining and expanding Guix's collection of packages can be complicated. As a distribution with around 22,000 packages, spanning across around 7 architectures and with support for cross-compilation, it's quite common…

Parameterized Packages for GNU Guix

9 червня 2023 року

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…

From development environments to continuous integration—the ultimate guide to software development with Guix

5 червня 2023 року

Guix is a handy tool for developers; guix shell , in particular, gives a standalone development environment for your package, no matter what language(s) it’s written in.…

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

26 квітня 2023 року

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! …

Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions

19 квітня 2023 року

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…

Reinstating an iconic error message

1 квітня 2023 року

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…

Building Toolchains with Guix

15 березня 2023 року

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 лютого 2023 року

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…

Meet Guix at FOSDEM

23 січня 2023 року

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…

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Comes to Guix Containers

6 січня 2023 року

GNU Guix is different from most other GNU/Linux distributions and perhaps nowhere is that more obvious than the organization of the filesystem: Guix does not conform to the Filesystem…

Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations

4 січня 2023 року

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…

GNU Guix 1.4.0 released

19 грудня 2022 року

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.4.0! The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, a virtual machine image, and with tarballs to install the…

Wrapping up Ten Years of Guix in Paris

28 вересня 2022 року

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 червня 2022 року

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 квітня 2022 року

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…

Keeping one’s home tidy

21 березня 2022 року

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…

Online Guix Day Conference: schedule released!

14 лютого 2022 року

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…

Sunsetting gzip substitutes availability

9 лютого 2022 року

Starting next month (2022/03/01), the build farm known as ci.guix.gnu.org will no longer offer gzip-compressed binary substitutes. The Guix daemon has known to use lzip for substitutes since 2019…

Meet Guix at FOSDEM

2 лютого 2022 року

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…