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Write package definitions in a breeze
2023-11-24
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…
Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions
2023-04-19
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
2023-02-20
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
2023-01-04
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…
Keeping one’s home tidy
2022-03-21
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…
Guile 3 & Guix
2020-01-24
Version 3.0 of GNU Guile, an implementation of the Scheme programming language , was released just last week . This is a major milestone for Guile, which gets compiler improvements and…
Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial
2019-11-04
The outcome of this year's GSoC is a Guile-based programming interface named guix deploy for automatically creating, upgrading, and changing the configurations of machines running the Guix System.…
Towards Guix for DevOps
2019-07-12
Hey, there! I'm Jakob, a Google Summer of Code intern and new contributor to Guix. Since May, I've been working on a DevOps automation tool for the Guix System, which…
A packaging tutorial for Guix
2018-10-10
Introduction GNU Guix stands out as the hackable package manager, mostly because it uses GNU Guile , a powerful high-level programming language, one of the…
Multi-dimensional transactions and rollbacks, oh my!
2018-07-24
One of the highlights of version 0.15.0 was the overhaul of guix pull , the command that updates Guix and its package collection. In Debian terms,…
Customize GuixSD: Use Stock SSH Agent Everywhere!
2018-05-26
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…
Guix at the 2014 GNU Hackers Meeting
2014-10-11
The Guix talk of this summer's GNU Hackers Meeting is now available (get the slides ). DOWNLOAD VIDEO (WebM, 60 minutes) …
Guix at the European Lisp Symposium
2013-05-21
A paper presenting the design of Guix's Scheme API and packaging language has been accepted for the 2013 European Lisp Symposium (ELS) . ELS…