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Coming events
October 17, 2017
Guix will be present on a few venues in the coming weeks: On October 23rd, I (Ludovic Courtès) will be at
GPCE ,
an academic conference co-located
Back from RSE 2017
September 11, 2017
Last week, I was in Manchester, UK, to attend the second conference of
Research Software Engineers, or RSE 2017
for short. I presented on the topic of
Announcing Guix-HPC
September 5, 2017
Today, Inria, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), and
the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC)
are
announcing
a joint
effort
to
consolidate GNU Guix for reproducible scientific workflows in
high-performance
Back from BOSC 2017
July 25, 2017
On the 23rd and 24th of July, Pjotr Prins and I visited Prague to
attend BOSC 2017 , the 18th
annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference. We combined our
State of aarch64 on Guix
July 24, 2017
Since the recent 0.13.0 release, Guix supports building software for
aarch64 (64-bit ARM architecture). Here’s the current status. Currently aarch64 support in Guix is pretty good, as
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.13.0 released
May 22, 2017
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD,
version 0.13.0! The release comes with
GuixSD USB installation images ,
a
virtual machine image of GuixSD
Running system services in containers
April 14, 2017
At FOSDEM, in the awesome
Guile track , I
briefly demoed a new experimental GuixSD feature as part my
talk on system services :
the ability to run system services
Creating bundles with guix pack
March 20, 2017
Guix just got a new command,
dubbed guix pack ,
which we think many developers will find useful. Last week we were celebrating the
release of
Join GNU Guix for GSoC
March 9, 2017
As in
previous
years ,
Guix participates in the Google Summer of
Code (GSoC), under the aegis of the GNU
Project . We have collected project
Back from BOB Konferenz 2017
February 25, 2017
The BOB Konferenz 2017 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from Ricardo Wurmus' talk, "Functional
Back from FOSDEM 2017
February 6, 2017
FOSDEM 2017 concluded. This time, the GNU Guix community participated with 8 talks. An introduction to functional package management with GNU Guix
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 17, 2017
GNU Guix will be present
at FOSDEM next month with
talks on a number
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.12.0 released
December 21, 2016
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.12.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone
Reproducible Build Summit, 2nd Edition
December 16, 2016
GNU Guix was present this week at
the second
Reproducible Build Summit in Berlin.
GNU Guix on Hacker Public Radio
December 1, 2016
An interview with Chris Webber at Hacker Public Radio (2015-12-01) on "How awesome is Guix and why will it take over the world".
Growing Our Build Farm
November 10, 2016
We have received our new server for continuous builds of the GNU Guix
system, and are putting the finishing touches on its installation.
The
Back from CUFP 2016
September 24, 2016
The Commencial Users of Functional Programming 2016 Workshop concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from
Back from the Scheme Workshop 2016
September 18, 2016
The 17th Annual Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop 2016 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides
Back from GBCUW 2016
September 13, 2016
On the 12th of September, I attended the German Bioinformatics Core
Unit Workshop , a satellite workshop
on behalf of the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2016. I
gave
Back from the GNU Hackers Meeting 2016
August 22, 2016
The GNU Hackers Meeting 2016 took place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from August 18-20 hosted by Inria . GNU Guix maintainer, Ludovic Courtès,
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.11.0 released
August 3, 2016
It is a pleasure to announce the new beta release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.11.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install
GuixSD system tests
June 28, 2016
From its inception, Guix has had a thorough test suite—something that’s not only reassuring, but also the thing that allows for fearless evolution of the code. That
Back from DConf 2016
May 4, 2016
The DConf 2016 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from Pjoter Prins' lightning talk, "GNU
GNU Guix welcomes four students for GSoC
April 24, 2016
We are glad to announce that four students will join GNU Guix for the 2016 Google Summer of Code (GSoC): Efraim will hack a
GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.10.0 released
March 29, 2016
We are pleased to announce the new beta release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.10.0! The release comes with USB installation images to install the
GNOME in GuixSD
March 23, 2016
It’s a feature that many users were waiting for: proper GNOME support in GuixSD. Good news: the forthcoming Guix and GuixSD release will give you
Guix at LibrePlanet 2016
March 15, 2016
GNU hackers Christopher Allan Webber (whom you may know from the GNU MediaGoblin project ) and David Thompson will be co-presenting "Solving the Deployment Crisis with
Join GNU Guix for GSoC
March 8, 2016
This year again the GNU Project is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), and Guix is participating under
Timely delivery of security updates
March 2, 2016
Yesterday, a new version of OpenSSL was released , addressing several serious vulnerabilities, some of which are nicknamed "DROWN" . Like all free software distributions,
Meet Guix at FOSDEM!
January 22, 2016
One week to FOSDEM ! This year, there will be no less than six Guix-related talks. This and the fact that we are addressing different