Summary
- Liberating. Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
- Dependable. Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and more. When used as a standalone distribution, Guix supports declarative system configuration for transparent and reproducible operating systems.
- Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Discover Guix
Guix 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.
GNU Guix in your field
Read some stories about how people are using GNU Guix in their daily lives.
GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros
If you don't use GNU Guix as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, you still can use it as a package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.
Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.
Blog
Substitutes are now available as lzip
June 17, 2019
For a long time, our build farm at ci.guix.gnu.org has been delivering substitutes (pre-built binaries) compressed with gzip. Gzip was never the best choice in terms of compression…
Creating and using a custom Linux kernel on Guix System
May 21, 2019
Guix is, at its core, a source based distribution with substitutes , and as such building packages from their source code is an expected part of regular package installations and…
GNU Guix 1.0.1 released
May 19, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.0.1. This new version fixes bugs in the graphical installer for the standalone Guix System. The release…
Contact
IRC Channel
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Info Mailing List
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Help Mailing List
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