Dmitri Paduchikh wrote .. > For 30 years "GNU" has acquired much broader meaning than just a > distro. > You will have to differentiate distro name from this broader meaning > constantly qualifying that it is Guix distro which you are talking > about. And it will be harder to search in Google. This isn't anything new though: There's The GNU Project, consisting of RMS as the head in his capacity as Chief GNUisance, Karl Berry as Assistant Chief GNUisance, along with various GNU Maintainers that collectively work on The GNU Operating System, which is itself made up of individual the GNU Packages maintained by the respective Maintainer. It's not much different that, say, Debian: The Debian Project is made up of Debian Developers that work on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. The project & distribution are considered separate entities but could you imagine that the Debian Developers would would ever make a separate distribution called, say, "Not Debian" and say it's unoffical and that the Debian distrro and the Not Debian distro are two different systems? Wouldn't it seem strange? I suppose it depends on how you view the role, which could probably be seen from a few different directions: Is it to make a GNU package that makes an unofficial GNU distribution (of which there are hundreds so this in't much different, except for having a more interesting package manager), or is it that the GNU Maintainers are using GNU Project infrastructure to work on an official GNU package called GNU Guix, and getting everything packaged up for a proper release of the GNU Opearating System (finally.) The actions necessary to accomplish each seems to be the (nearly) the same, with the only difference being what you call it.