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GNU Guix VS Advanced Package Tool

Compare GNU Guix VS Advanced Package Tool and see what are their differences

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GNU Guix logo GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.

Advanced Package Tool logo Advanced Package Tool

Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.
  • GNU Guix Landing page
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    2023-03-26
  • Advanced Package Tool Landing page
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    2022-07-25

GNU Guix videos

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  • Review - Building a whole distro on top of a minimalistic language The story of GNU Guix
  • Tutorial - How to Install GNU Guix System 1.1.0 + Review

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GNU Guix and Advanced Package Tool)

GNU Guix

Advanced Package Tool

Developer Tools
100 100%
Developer Tools
0% 0
Front End Package Manager
70 70%
Front End Package Manager
30% 30
Package Manager
68 68%
Package Manager
32% 32
Windows Tools
0 0%
Windows Tools
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GNU Guix seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 90 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GNU Guix mentions (90)

  • Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
    > So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use. That exists since 1960. It's called LISP. The e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/ uses with great success, the Guile Scheme dialect of LISP, to be precise. And FYI the "framework" is: 
      $ ls --human-readable --size $(readlink $(which...
    - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
    > inventing a brand new purely functional language programming language. ISTM that if you dislike that, then there's GUIX. https://guix.gnu.org/ Very briefly, AFAICT, it's "Nix but using Scheme". - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Linux saved my life
    And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS. Source: 10 months ago
  • The nicest web browser of 2023 uses Lisp.
    Https://guix.gnu.org for example. It did load before an update but it doesn't anymore. Source: 11 months ago
  • Java community welcomes kotlin, c/c++ community welcome rust and go and Javascript community welcomes typscript except emacs community who still refuse to welcome gnu guile.
    Is it? Seems to me it's used for some pretty cool stuff, heard of Guix? Source: 11 months ago
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Advanced Package Tool mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Advanced Package Tool yet. Tracking of Advanced Package Tool recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GNU Guix and Advanced Package Tool, you can also consider the following products

NixOS - 25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.

npm - npm is a package manager for Node.

Conda - Binary package manager with support for environments.

Chocolatey - The sane way to manage software on Windows.

Portage - Portage is source-based package manager used by Gentoo and its descendants. It controls all process from fetching source through building it, installing into clean environment to "merging" with already installed software.

aptitude - Terminal-based apt frontend.

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