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Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:19:14 +0200
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Hello,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> skribis:

> On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote:
>
>> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix
>> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as
>> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros.
>
> That's already possible right now. Go to the download page and check
> for "GNU Guix 0.13.0 Binary". This is Guix for other Linux distros, as
> a look at the installation instructions will confirm. I am using this
> on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation on my laptop.

The link:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.htm=
l>.

And I should add that we are committed to supporting Guix usage on other
distros.  This is an important use case.

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