From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
To: "Atom X" <atomx@deadlyhead.com>
Cc: gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org, nix-dev@cs.uu.nl,
bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:48:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5fpb2ct.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehhiw2e2.fsf@atomx.deadlyhead.home>
Fantastic — congratulations. I might have to reschedule my prolonged
Skyrim session planned for tomorrow in light of this…
~acs
Atom X <atomx@deadlyhead.com> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> ;; Announcement. -*- scheme -*-
>>
>> (define guix
>> (package
>> (name "guix")
>> (version "0.1") ; first alpha release
>> (source
>> (origin
>> (method url-fetch)
>> (uri "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz")
>> (signature "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.1.tar.gz.sig")
>> (sha256
>> "350286bcf37a4035244cdddfe7bd62e79bcd08db0ed35b48e1444302dfc52005")))
>> (license gpl3+)
>> (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/")
>> (synopsis "Functional package management for GNU")
>> (description
>> "GNU Guix is a functional package manager and associated free
>> software distribution of the GNU system.
>>
>> In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
>> transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
>> per-user profiles, and garbage collection (more details in the manual.)
>> Guix uses mechanisms from the Nix package management tool, with a Guile
>> Scheme programming interface.
>>
>> Guix comes with a small (~150 packages) and growing user-land software
>> distribution–i.e., it’s not a bootable distribution yet, but rather one
>> to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system. It includes
>> GNU libc 2.17, GCC 4.7.2, GNU Emacs 24.2, GNU Guile 2.0.7, and many more!
>>
>> The distribution with this release is available on i686 and x86_64
>> Linux-based systems. It features source-based deployment only;
>> bootstrapping the distribution requires ~5 GiB of disk space.
>>
>> See the ROADMAP and TODO files for future directions. Building the
>> distribution is a cooperative effort, and you are invited to join!")))
>>
>> ;; Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
>
> I cannot begin to express just how excited I am about this, and not just
> because it's an awesome project using Guile.
>
> Thank you, Ludo'. I'm fetching it now.
>
> -- Atom X
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-18 1:13 GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha) Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-18 22:29 ` Atom X
2013-01-19 15:48 ` Alex Sassmannshausen [this message]
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