After three years in development, GNU Guix 1.5 has been released, marking the start of a newly adopted annual release cycle. But if this name has flown under your radar, let me briefly explain what it is before we move on to the news.
First and foremost, Guix is both a transactional package manager and a full GNU/Linux distribution built around it. As a package manager, guix can be installed on top of most existing Linux systems, where it operates independently of native tools like apt or dnf.
At the same time, Guix System is a standalone operating system (Linux distro) that uses the same technology to declaratively manage the entire OS, including the kernel, system services, and user environments.
Guix just makes me think someone looked at nix and was like
Hmmm, needs more parentheses, we should do that but lisp
As someone who has worked a lot with both, I think that’s a very measured reaction to seeing Nix
It started as a fork of nix for that exact reason so…
kexec reboot support
Does that mean bootless kernel updates?
If so, between that and declarative configuration, it sounds way better than I envisioned the product was going to be.
Gnome 46? And they won’t update it for at least another year?
Jeez, we’re almost at Gnome 50…
Lol, GNOME 46
