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GNU Guix talk in Boston, MA (USA) on January 20th

January 11, 2016

David Thompson will be giving a talk about Guix on January 20th at the BLU gathering at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). blog post summary ellipsis…

Guix starts fundraising campaign with support from the FSF

December 16, 2015

The GNU Guix project is glad to announce its first fundraising campaign, supported by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As the FSF announced today , the campaign’sblog post summary ellipsis…

Service composition in GuixSD

November 19, 2015

GuixSD provides a declarative, stateless approach to operating system configuration management. In this context, the mechanism offered to select and compose system services is a crucial one.blog post summary ellipsis…

Reproducible builds: a means to an end

November 11, 2015

What we stand for GNU Guix is committed to improving the freedom and autonomy of computer users. This obviously manifests in the fact that GuixSD isblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.9.0 released

November 5, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.9.0. The release comes with USB installation images to install the standaloneblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix talk in Rennes, France, November 9th

November 2, 2015

Ludovic Courtès will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD in Rennes, France, on November 9th . The event is organized by the threeblog post summary ellipsis…

Container provisioning with Guix

October 27, 2015

The upcoming release of GNU Guix will feature an implementation of Linux containers named, following Scheme conventions, call-with-container . Containers are a lightweight virtualization technique usedblog post summary ellipsis…

Guix-Tox talk at PyConFR, October 17th

October 9, 2015

Bonjour ! Cyril Roelandt of Red Hat who works on OpenStack will be giving a talk about Guix-Tox at PyConFR in Pau, France, on October 17th.blog post summary ellipsis…

Chris Webber talks about Guix in Chicago, September 30th

September 18, 2015

Chris Webber of MediaGoblin fame will be giving two talks for the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group meeting on September 30th. Theblog post summary ellipsis…

Porting Guix and GuixSD

September 7, 2015

Quite a lot has happened lately when it comes to porting Guix and GuixSD to other systems. A few weeks ago, Manolis Ragkousis announcedblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

July 22, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.3. The release comes with USB installation images to install the standaloneblog post summary ellipsis…

GSoC update

July 19, 2015

This year Guix was lucky to have 3 GSoC projects , and they have made rather good progress so far: Manolis successfully completedblog post summary ellipsis…

Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix

July 1, 2015

Our paper entitled Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix was accepted for RepPar , a workshop on reproducibility in parallel computing: blog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.8.2 released

May 14, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.2. The release comes both with tarballs, which allow you to installblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix talk at OpenTechSummit, Berlin, May 14th

May 12, 2015

Ricardo Wurmus will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD at the OpenTechSummit in Berlin, Germany, on May 14th. The talkblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix welcomes three students for GSoC

May 2, 2015

GNU Guix got 3 slots for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), as part of GNU, which participates as an organization. So we are pleased to welcomeblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix recruits for GSoC

March 13, 2015

This year again Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the GNU Project . If you areblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.8.1 released

January 29, 2015

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.1. The release comes both with a source tarball, which allows youblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix at FOSDEM

January 27, 2015

Guix will be present at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, with a talk entitled "The Emacs of Distros" this Saturday, at 3PM, in room H.1302. Theblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix ported to ARM and other niceties of the new year

January 9, 2015

A new port of GNU Guix to ARM using the "hard float" ABI has just landed , thanks to the hard work of Mark H Weaver andblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.8 released

November 18, 2014

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8. The release comes both with a source tarball, which allows youblog post summary ellipsis…

Guix at the 2014 GNU Hackers Meeting

October 11, 2014

The Guix talk of this summer's GNU Hackers Meeting is now available (get the slides ). DOWNLOAD VIDEO (WebM, 60 minutes) blog post summary ellipsis…

Join us for a Guix hackathon on Sep. 27-28!

September 16, 2014

The GNU Guix project is organizing a hackathon on September 27th and 28th, 2014. The hackathon will take place primarily on-line, on the #guix IRC channel onblog post summary ellipsis…

Emacs as a general-purpose package manager

September 4, 2014

GNU Guix , the package manager written for the GNU system, now has a neat Emacs user interface! It offers a visual, user-friendly alternative to theblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.7 released

July 25, 2014

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.7. This release is an important milestone for the project since itblog post summary ellipsis…

Guix at OpenBio Codefest 2014

July 13, 2014

On Wednesday, July 9th, David Thompson gave a brief introduction to GNU Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon . The objective of the Codefestblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU dmd 0.2 released

July 8, 2014

GNU dmd 0.2 has been released . It provides new features such as the ability to load new definitions for existing services, as wellblog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix 0.6 released

April 9, 2014

We are pleased to announce the sixth alpha release of GNU Guix . This release provides a bunch of new features, among other things:blog post summary ellipsis…

GNU Guix looks for GSoC students

February 27, 2014

This year again Guix participates in the Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the GNU Project. If you are an blog post summary ellipsis…

One week to FOSDEM!

January 25, 2014

FOSDEM takes place next week. We'll be giving a talk about Guix and the GNU system on Sunday at noon, in the blog post summary ellipsis…