GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager for the GNU system, and a distribution thereof.
Dependable. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Read more...
Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages are built and composed. Read more...
Liberating. A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of Guix. Read more...
Guix is based on the Nix package manager.
News
- 5 June 2013 — European Lisp Symposium talk now on-line
- 21 May 2013 — Guix at the European Lisp Symposium
- 13 May 2013 — GNU Guix 0.2 released
- 12 Apr. 2013 — Guix participates in GSoC
- 16 Feb. 2013 — Boot-to-Guile, a dish for Guile's birthday potluck
- 18 Jan. 2013 — GNU Guix 0.1 released
- 23 Nov. 2012 — Guix becomes a GNU project
Status
As of version 0.2, GNU Guix can be used on top of a running Linux-based system, on i686 and x86_64. Its salient package management features are implemented. The distribution provides 400+ packages, most of which are transparently available as pre-built binaries.
Work is in progress to build a stand-alone system. See the road map and get in touch with us!
Downloading Guix
Guix in its early development stages. It can be found on the GNU ftp server for alpha releases: http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via HTTP) and ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ (via FTP).
See the installation instructions from the manual.
Documentation
- Documentation for Guix is available on-line, as is documentation for most GNU software. You may also find more information about Guix by running info guix.
- Functional Package Management with Guix, presented at the 2013 European Lisp Symposium (ELS), describes the rationale, design, and implementation of Guix's packaging API (slides, audio)
- Video (Ogg/Theora; 84 minutes, 88.1MB) of Ludovic Courtès presenting Guix at the GNU Hackers' Meeting in July 2012.
Mailing lists
bug-Guix (archive) is used to discuss Guix, including development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.
Recent threads
Commit notifications
Guix-commits receives notifications of commits to the version control repository.
Announcements
Announcements about Guix and most other GNU software are made on info-gnu (archive).
Security reports
Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general security mailing list for advice.
Internet Relay Chat
Some Guix users and developers hang out on the #guix channel of the Freenode IRC network.
Getting involved
Guix is developed using the Git version control system.
Anonymous checkout: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
You can also browse the Git repository with your web browser: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
Commit notifications can be received on the Guix-commits mailing list.
Guix is implemented in Scheme,
using GNU Guile.
You do
A repository containing documents, supporting material of previous talks, and auxiliary information useful to hackers and maintainers is available at git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix/maintenance.git.
Development of Guix, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU. If you'd like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the bug-guix mailing list (see above).
Maintainer
Guix is currently being maintained by Ludovic Courtès. Please use the mailing lists for contact.
Licensing
Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.