Summary
- Liberating. The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
- Dependable. It comes with the GNU Guix package manager, which in addition to standard package management features, supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and more.
- Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Discover GuixSD
GuixSD comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager.
Graphical log-in screen.
Control your computer with the GNOME desktop environment.
The Xfce desktop environment with GNU Emacs and IceCat.
Virtual machine started with 'guix system vm'.
Enlightenment, Inkscape, and Serbian text.
GuixSD and GNU Guix in your field
Read some stories about how people are using GuixSD and GNU Guix in their daily lives.
GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros
If you don't use the Guix System Distribution for a particular reason, you still can use the GNU Guix package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.
GNU Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.
Blog
Join GNU Guix through Outreachy or GSoC
February 19, 2018
We are happy to announce that for the first time this year, GNU Guix offers a three-month internship through Outreachy , the inclusion program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software and…
Meet Guix at FOSDEM
January 29, 2018
GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM in the coming days with a couple of talks: The many ways of using Guix packages …
aarch64 build machines donated
January 25, 2018
Good news! We got a present for our build farm in the form of two SoftIron OverDrive 1000 aarch64 machines donated by ARM Holdings. One of them is already…
Contact
IRC Channel
Join the #guix channel on the Freenode IRC network to chat with the community about GuixSD or GNU Guix or to get…
Help Mailing List
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Bug Reporting
If you found a bug in GuixSD or Guix, check whether the bug is already in the bug database . If it is…