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

2023-04-26

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

2021-04-12

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%

2020-06-15

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

2019-12-16

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%

2019-10-08

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

2019-02-22

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

2018-12-11

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…