GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.3.

The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone Guix System Distribution (GuixSD), and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of a running GNU/Linux system, either from source or from binaries.

The highlights for this release include:

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00585.html for details.

About GNU Guix

GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and respects the user's freedom.

In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable and hackable.

GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7.

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