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Re:Music Production on Guix System by Avshalom on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:12PM (#25223563)
aside from the standard GNU utils right now it's mostly just guix the package manager and https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
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Re:Music Production on Guix System by rekado on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:19PM (#25223933)
It's a whole GNU system distribution using Guix to build the system reproducibly, providing roll-backs at the system level, using Guile Scheme even as early as the initrd, etc. I don't know what you mean by "GNU utils", but "Guix System" is quite a bit more than just Shepherd and coreutils.
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Re:Music Production on Guix System by rusk on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:11PM (#25225270)
Ah lovely, as an alternative to systemd? Sweet!
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