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
Porting GuixSD to ARMv7
December 22, 2017
GuixSD porting to ARMv7 is a difficult topic. There are plenty of different machines, with specific hardware configurations and vendor-tuned bootloaders, and ACPI support is still experimental. For those reasons it…
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released
December 7, 2017
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.14.0! The release comes with GuixSD ISO-9660 installation images , a virtual machine image of GuixSD…
Back from GPCE
November 1, 2017
Last week, I was at GPCE 2017 , an academic conference focused on generative programming techniques. I presented Code Staging in GNU Guix , a paper that discusses the…
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
Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GuixSD and GNU Guix community via email. Until December 2015 , the…
Bug Reporting
If you found a bug in GuixSD or Guix, check whether the bug is already in the bug database . If it is…