Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
by dannyobrien on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:03PM
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I set it up on my laptop as an experiment, and am greatly enjoying using it: it's nice to work on a modern, well thought-out distribution in its early stages, with lots of opportunities to contribute.
The ease by which you can manage and roll-out new configurations means that it's slowly spreading to other systems I manage.
It's also interesting to work on a distribution that takes the GNU project seriously: the developers default to using GNU software where possible, and are clearly striving to make a coherent operating system out of its parts. This is less an ideological position than it sounds -- there's a lot of gold buried in nearly half a century of GNU work, and I've enjoyed learning about it all, and seeing how the Guix team go about improving and modernising it.
The ease by which you can manage and roll-out new configurations means that it's slowly spreading to other systems I manage.
It's also interesting to work on a distribution that takes the GNU project seriously: the developers default to using GNU software where possible, and are clearly striving to make a coherent operating system out of its parts. This is less an ideological position than it sounds -- there's a lot of gold buried in nearly half a century of GNU work, and I've enjoyed learning about it all, and seeing how the Guix team go about improving and modernising it.