Re: GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

[Tobias Platen <trisquel@platen-software.de>]

Am 02.05.2019 um 14:12 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> We are thrilled to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.0.0!
>
> This 1.0 release is a major milestone for Guix.  It represents 7 years
> of hard work with more than 40,000 commits by 260 people, 19 releases,
> and an equally amazing amount of work on documentation, translation,
> artwork, web design, mentoring, outreach, and many other activities that
> together have made it a thriving project.
>
> Read more about today’s announcement at:
>
>   https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.0-released
>
> Whether you’re a software developer, a user, or a free software
> enthusiast, we hope GNU Guix will provide you with the tools to deploy
> and manage software with confidence and ease, qualities that are not
> usually associated with software deployment.  We’d love to hear from you!
>
> • About
>
>   GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced
>   distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom.  Guix can
>   be used on top of any system running the kernel Linux, or it can be
>   used as a standalone operating system distribution for i686, x86_64,
>   ARMv7, and AArch64 machines.
>
>   In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
>   transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package
>   management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  When used as a
>   standalone GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative,
>   stateless approach to operating system configuration management.  Guix
>   is highly customizable and hackable through Guile programming
>   interfaces and extensions to the Scheme language.
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
>
> • Download
>
>   Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.0.0.tar.gz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>
>   Here are the bootable USB installation images and their signatures[*]:
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.i686-linux.iso.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.i686-linux.iso.xz.sig
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz.sig
>
>   Here is the QCOW2 virtual machine (VM) image and its signature:
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.xz.sig
>
>   Here are the binary tarballs and their signatures[*]:
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.i686-linux.tar.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.i686-linux.tar.xz.sig
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz.sig
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.armhf-linux.tar.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.armhf-linux.tar.xz.sig
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
>     https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-1.0.0.aarch64-linux.tar.xz.sig
>
>   Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>     https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>   
>   Here are the SHA1 checksums:
>
>   fd64cd4347214a4e75d611696c9929cba8995323  guix-1.0.0.tar.gz
>   c17006616782405eee852dbd85292e73a0182d7e  guix-binary-1.0.0.aarch64-linux.tar.xz
>   9b168fa2835f911b9f340f2930d28b1287b53004  guix-binary-1.0.0.armhf-linux.tar.xz
>   a75a2571cc7aa8dbbb0a355bf1a29f4475c243ff  guix-binary-1.0.0.i686-linux.tar.xz
>   6ebfcb5cbed6dcd0c7514b8b3f2406125d30f1a5  guix-binary-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.tar.xz
>   c9f67b69b45a0ac4946e4472511e925782129e92  guix-system-install-1.0.0.i686-linux.iso.xz
>   802177714b7c96cf83dcab4b24e36f3111ba64b8  guix-system-install-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz
>   244c3218326a706f495bfa2a7c03fe5f68549a8e  guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux.xz
>   
>   [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
>   .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
>   and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>   
>     gpg --verify guix-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
>   
>   If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
>   then run this command to import it:
>   
>     gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \
>         --recv-keys 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
>   
>   and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
>   To install the standalone Guix system, please see “System
>   Installation” in the manual.  To install Guix on a running system, see
>   “Installation” in the manual.
>
> • Changes since version 0.16.0 (excerpt from the NEWS file)
>
>  ** Package management
>  *** New ‘-v’/‘--verbosity’ option for all commands
>  *** Most commands now default to verbosity level 1 (“quiet”)
>  *** New ‘guix package’ aliases: ‘install’, ‘remove’, ‘upgrade’, and ‘search’
>  *** ‘guix pack -RR’ produces PRoot-enabled relocatable binaries
>  *** New ‘--save-provenance’ option for ‘guix pack’
>  *** CLI diagnostics use colors; more operations show progress bars
>  *** New ‘--news’ option for ‘guix pull’
>  *** New ‘--preserve’ option for ‘guix environment’
>  *** ‘guix environment -C’ creates containers with a non-zero UID
>  *** Channels can now specify dependencies in a ‘.guix-channel’ file
>  *** New ‘reverse-bag’ graph type for ‘guix graph’
>  *** New ‘--with-git-url’ package transformation option
>  *** The ‘--with-branch’ package transformation option fetches Git sub-modules
>  *** New ‘guix system delete-generations’ command
>  *** New ‘--list-roots’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options for ‘guix gc’
>  *** New ‘--coverage’ option for ‘guix weather’
>  *** ‘guix pull’ computes a package cache to speed up package lookups by name
>  *** ‘guix pull’ now embeds ‘glibc-utf8-locales’
>  *** ‘guix refresh -l’ better estimates dependents
>  *** ‘guix build’ can take multiple ‘--system’ flags
>  *** ‘guix offload’ avoids build machines with too little free disk space
>  *** ‘guix offload’ now uses (guix inferior) to communicate with remote hosts
>  *** Guix can no longer be built with Guile 2.0
>  ** Distribution
>  *** New text-mode graphical installer
>  *** New virtual machine (VM) image
>  *** New ‘keyboard-layout’ field for the OS, bootloader, and Xorg configuration
>  *** New ‘xorg-configuration’ record type for Xorg server configuration
>  *** ‘%desktop-services’ now includes GDM instead of SLiM for graphical log-in
>  *** New ‘label’ and ‘essential-services’ fields for <operation-system>
>  *** The manual has been restructured for clarity
>  *** New ‘remote-inferior’ procedure in (guix ssh)
>  *** New (gnu ci) module for continuous integration jobs
>  *** (gnu services shepherd) now supports one-shot services
>  *** New services
>
>  cups-pk-helper, imap4d, inputattach, localed, nslcd, zabbix-agent,
>  zabbix-server
>
>  *** 1102 new packages
>  *** 2104 package updates
>
>  Noteworthy updates:
>  clojure 1.10.0, cups 2.2.11, emacs 26.2, gcc 8.3.0, gdb 8.2.1, ghc 8.4.3,
>  gimp 2.10.10, glibc 2.28, gnome 3.28.2, gnupg 2.2.15, go 1.12.1,
>  guile 2.2.4, icecat 60.6.1-guix1, icedtea 3.7.0, inkscape 0.92.4,
>  libreoffice 6.1.5.2, linux-libre 5.0.10, mate 1.22.0, ocaml 4.07.1,
>  octave 5.1.0, openjdk 11.28, python 3.7.0, rust 1.34.0, r 3.6.0,
>  sbcl 1.5.1, shepherd 0.6.0, xfce 4.12.1, xorg-server 1.20.4
>
>  ** Programming interfaces
>  *** New ‘this-package’, ‘this-origin’, and ‘this-operating-system’ macros
>  *** The ‘self-native-input?’ field was removed from <package>
>  *** New ‘package-input-rewriting/spec’ procedure for graph rewriting
>  *** New ‘package-closure’ procedure in (guix packages)
>  *** New UI helper modules (guix colors) and (guix deprecation)
>  *** New (gnu build accounts) module to manage /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}
>  *** ‘nix-*’ bindings in (guix store) replaced by ‘store-connection-*’
>  *** Records created by ‘define-record-type*’ report duplicate fields
>  ** Noteworthy bug fixes
>  *** ISO images produced by ‘guix system’ are now reproducible bit-for-bit
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35283>)
>  *** ‘guix pack -f squashfs’ produces relative symlinks
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34913>)
>  *** ‘guix package -r something-not-installed’ now raises an error
>  *** Fix multi-threaded miscompilation issue with syntax parameters
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/27476>)
>  *** file-systems: Spawn a REPL only when interaction is possible
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/23697>)
>  *** ‘guix environment’ supports package transformation options
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33776>)
>  *** ‘guix substitute’ now ignores irrelevant narinfo signatures
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33733>)
>  *** On Guix System, guix-daemon now runs in a UTF-8 locale
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/32942>)
>  *** Fix relative file name canonicalization for '--root'
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/35271>)
>  *** vm: Do not mount /xchg with "cache=loose"
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33639>)
>  *** build-system/go: Build with a filesystem union of Go dependencies
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/33620>)
>  *** 'containerized-operating-system' removes "useless" services
>      (<https://bugs.gnu.org/34211>)
>  ** Native language support
>  *** The manual is now fully translated in French and Spanish
>  *** The manual is also partly translated in German and in Simplified Chinese
>  *** Updated translations: da, de, es, fr
>  *** New translations: sv
>
> Please report bugs to bug-guix@gnu.org
> Join guix-devel@gnu.org and #guix on Freenode for discussions.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
>
>      2	Alex Griffin
>      4	Alex Kost
>      1	Alex Sassmannshausen
>      8	Alex Vong
>      1	Amar Singh
>      3	Amin Bandali
>     16	Andreas Enge
>      1	Andrew Miloradovsky
>      3	Arne Babenhauserheide
>     30	Arun Isaac
>      8	Björn Höfling
>      4	Brendan Tildesley
>     31	Brett Gilio
>     67	Brian Leung
>      1	Caleb Ristvedt
>      3	Carl Dong
>      3	Carlo Zancanaro
>      8	Chris Marusich
>    167	Christopher Baines
>      1	Christopher Lemmer Webber
>     29	Clément Lassieur
>      1	Damien Cassou
>      5	Dan Frumin
>     84	Danny Milosavljevic
>      1	Danny O'Brien
>      3	Diego Nicola Barbato
>      1	Dimakakos Dimos
>    335	Efraim Flashner
>     37	Eric Bavier
>      4	Feng Shu
>     38	Gabriel Hondet
>      1	Giovanni Biscuolo
>      1	Guy Fleury Iteriteka
>      1	Guy fleury
>      7	Gábor Boskovits
>     25	Hartmut Goebel
>      1	HiPhish
>      8	Ivan Petkov
>      2	Jack Hill
>      2	Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>     15	Jelle Licht
>      3	Jens M
>      6	Jonathan Brielmaier
>      1	Jovany Leandro G.C
>    145	Julien Lepiller
>     44	Katherine Cox-Buday
>     58	Kei Kebreau
>      1	Kyle Meyer
>      1	Laura Lazzati
>    150	Leo Famulari
>      6	Lprndn
>    587	Ludovic Courtès
>      1	Manolis Ragkousis
>      1	Marco van Hulten
>    426	Marius Bakke
>    146	Mark H Weaver
>      3	Mathieu Lirzin
>     77	Mathieu Othacehe
>     33	Maxim Cournoyer
>     42	Meiyo Peng
>      2	Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
>      2	Nam Nguyen
>     69	Nicolas Goaziou
>      3	Nicolò Balzarotti
>     28	Oleg Pykhalov
>      1	P.C. Shyamshankar
>      6	Paul Garlick
>     15	Pierre Langlois
>    148	Pierre Neidhardt
>      2	Pierre-Antoine Rouby
>      1	Pjotr Prins
>      9	Pkill -9
>      1	Raphaël Mélotte
>      4	Rene
>   1299	Ricardo Wurmus
>      1	Robert Smith
>    113	Rutger Helling
>      1	Sam
>     13	Sou Bunnbu (宋文武)
>      4	Stefan Stefanović
>      1	Taylan Kammer
>      9	Tim Gesthuizen
>      1	Tim Stahel
>      2	Timo Eisenmann
>     22	Timothy Sample
>   1255	Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>      2	Tomáš Čech
>     43	Vagrant Cascadian
>      3	Vasile Dumitrascu
>      2	Yoshinori Arai
>      3	frozenpigs
>     34	guy fleury iteriteka
>      1	leungbk
>      1	mikadoZero
>      5	nee
>      2	ng0
>      1	nixo
>      1	rendaw
>      3	swedebugia
>
> Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
Yesterday I installed Guix 1.0.0 on my Vikings D16 server.  I found out
that there are boostrap binaries ready for 32bit PowerPC. I tried to run
those on my Talos II, I expected a failure, but everything works fine.
I expect Guix 2.0.0 to run on the Talos II and even older Computers such
as the iBook G4.

Tobias