GNU Guix 0.8.1 - Hackdot

Re:GNU Guix 0.8.1 by taylanub on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:13AM (#8965260)

Version 0.8.1 of GNU's purely functional package manager Guix has been released.

The project develops, at the same time, GNU GSD (Guix System Distribution), a GNU operating system.

GNU GSD is an avant-garde GNU system utilizing Guix as its package manager, and the similarly Guile/Scheme based dmd as its init system.

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8.1 by josteink on Thursday January 29, 2015 @07:40AM (#8965719)

First of all: Guix (and Nix) seems like really interesting projects, I'm just not there yet that I'm going to nuke what I know and love for it.

I probably will one day, but not right now.

But: I'm not sure you're doing your work any justice by labelling it "avant-garde". I think you risk looking "weird" or more dangerous than you need to and might detract people from looking into it.

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8.1 by taylanub on Thursday January 29, 2015 @08:31AM (#8965958)

Someone else just pointed that out to me too. I didn't know of all the connotations of the term, sorry about that. :-)

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8.1 by dublinben on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:36AM (#8966308)

Avant-garde is a perfect description of Guix. It is an experimental OS that pushes the boundaries of the status quo.

What negative connotations do you think this has among hackers?

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8.1 by ArneBab on Thursday January 29, 2015 @08:40AM (#8966000)

Installing it just for your user instead of system wide is a pretty neat way to test Guix and profit from some of its benefits.

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