From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GNU Distribution Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:32:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87txrvdtcv.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53265) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Thkjk-0001ku-6h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:32:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Thkjj-0007C1-6X for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:32:20 -0500 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:12190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Thkjj-0007Bt-0E for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:32:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: ("KarlOskar \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Rik\=C3\=A5s\=22's\?\= message of "Sun, 9 Dec 2012 17:47:35 +0100") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: KarlOskar =?utf-8?Q?Rik=C3=A5s?= Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org Hi, KarlOskar Rik=C3=A5s skribis: > In GUIX page it says the following: > > "A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of > Guix." > > Is it possible to get any details on this? =E2=80=9CUser-land distribution=E2=80=9D means that it provides packages fo= r user-land software that can be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system. Currently it includes just ~100 packages, including the GNU libc, GCC, Coreutils, and Guile. The goal is to eventually make it a bootable, stand-alone distribution. See and for details. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.