FOSS and Crafts

44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix


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Guix turns ten!

We celebrate Guix's first decade
by highlighting ten great things about Guix!
Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating systems,
and why "Composable DSLs" are great!

Links:

  • Guix

  • Stories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blog

  • Nix

  • Cool Guix features highlighted in this episode:

    • Grafts (for security updates)

    • guix challenge

    • guix shell and guix environment

    • guix pack

  • Nonguix (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to get their computers to work...)

  • Reproducible Builds

  • Bootstrappable Builds

  • Mes (see this video for an introduction)

  • Reflections on Trusting Trust (aka the "Thompson Attack" described in the episode)

  • virtualenv

...more
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