Re:GNU Guix 0.5 released
by davexunit on Thursday December 12, 2013 @10:01AM
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>Also, the selection of packages in Guix is way too small.
This is a 0.5 release because there's a lot left to do. There are tons of packages left to write in order to have a good selection of free software. We would love some help.
>Is Firefox even in? (no. Icecat is, whatever that is. Don't ask if Chrome is in.)
GNU Icecat is a fork of Firefox with the nonfree bits removed. Chrome is proprietary so it will absolutely not be part of the GNU distribution. Chromium has licensing issues (and is a nightmare to package, btw: https://twitter.com/spotrh/status/410479218791706624). I don't know of any fully free distro that packages it so I don't think it will be available in Guix.
However, if you do want to use proprietary software, you could always pull packages from other sources that package such things.
This is a 0.5 release because there's a lot left to do. There are tons of packages left to write in order to have a good selection of free software. We would love some help.
>Is Firefox even in? (no. Icecat is, whatever that is. Don't ask if Chrome is in.)
GNU Icecat is a fork of Firefox with the nonfree bits removed. Chrome is proprietary so it will absolutely not be part of the GNU distribution. Chromium has licensing issues (and is a nightmare to package, btw: https://twitter.com/spotrh/status/410479218791706624). I don't know of any fully free distro that packages it so I don't think it will be available in Guix.
However, if you do want to use proprietary software, you could always pull packages from other sources that package such things.