GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

[Ludovic Courtès]

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;; 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.

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Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

[Atom X]

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

Re: GNU Guix 0.1 released (alpha)

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

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