GNU Guix Reviews and Details

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• An experimental Linux distribution that Redefines the filesystem hierarchy

  I'm a NixOS user and I know Gobolinux is a few years older, this blogpost (from 2011) was actually useful for me at the time when I decided to pick NixOS for my workstations: https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.com/2011/12/evaluation-and-comparison-of-gobolinux.html Nowadays I'm also playing with Guix as well, I kinda love that everything can be unified in a more decent language (Guile Scheme) than Nix:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Show HN: ClaudeOS – What if Claude Code managed your operating system?

  > I started because I wanted Claude Code to manage my system, not just my code. I have two reactions to this. First: respectfully, this is hilarious. LLMs are good at many things, but judgement is not one of them. At the outset, this was firmly in the "terrible ideas" category. Second: sometimes from terrible ideas come great creativity. (I'm actually not sure what epistemic basis creativity flows from, if not... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released

  If you're interested in what's going on with GNU in general, GUIX is awesome. It's a package manager like Nix but purely GNU (using GNU Guile scheme). It's developed in tandem with the GNU Shepherd init system (instead of systemd/sysvinit/openrc/etc.) and there are distributions based on GNU Hurd kernel (or the Linux-libre kernel). Wikipedia has a pretty good rundown [3] but I recommend booting up a VM image. It's... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

  You could take a look at guix [1], it's very much like nix, but is available as a package manager for other distros. [1] https://guix.gnu.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• The Most Elegant Configuration Language

  And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Douglas Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)

  Guix is a Nix-like package manager and distro that is almost entirely written in Guile Scheme: https://guix.gnu.org/ I would guess it's by far the most active Guile project. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years ago

• Linux saved my life

  And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS. Source: about 3 years 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: about 3 years 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: about 3 years ago

• Lua: The Little Language That Could

  I think a "competitor" to Lua would be Guile [1], but I am not sure if it gets close to Lua in terms of lightweightness... It was designed to be used in the GNU project, with similar objects as Lua: to be light, easily embeddable. It's a Scheme (Lisp) so maybe not for everyone's taste... Its "coolest" use I know of is for configuring Guix [2] (the GNU version of Nix). [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ [2]... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Immutable OS suggestions

  No one said Guix yet, might be worth a look: https://guix.gnu.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What are some of the more innovative linux distributions?

  GNU Guix! A fully functional package manager and distro heavily inspire by Nix. The primary difference between it and Nix being that it is almost entirely written and configured in GNU Guile, an implementation of Scheme (Lisp) and the official extension language of the GNU Project (originally intended to be for GNU what emacs lisp is for emacs). Source: over 3 years ago

• What are some of the more innovative linux distributions?

  Https://guix.gnu.org/ https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/5-reasons-to-try-guix/. Source: over 3 years ago

• Rust Offline?

  You should perhaps utilize guix for your projects. It provides rather acceptable rust resp. Crates support and in a perfectly reproducible build environment. But be aware, that it even tries to build even the rust compiler from source by going through all this nasty steps of its iterative bootstrap process. This can be a little bit complex and time-consuming, if you need an up-to-date version of rustc. Source: over 3 years ago

• Nobara is letting me down lately.

  Other immutable desktops that attain a similar degree of stability and reproducibility without being deprived of the latest kernels and packages would be NixOS and Guix. Despite their appeal, some may find them too distinctive compared to mainstream distributions. Source: over 3 years ago

• What is the difference between Immutable Desktops and non Immutable Desktops?

  Oversimplifying might have been the most sensible in this context. However, you might have gone a little bit too far as your description fits only NixOS, Guix and distros that utilize rpm-ostree. Source: over 3 years ago

• The Emacs Curse: When Everything Else Just Feels Inferior 😱🧙‍♂️

  The GNU project is trying to solve your problem. Its goal is to create a whole ecosystem of applications that have GNU Guile Scheme as their extension language. One of the flagship projects for this is GNU Guix, which brings together various user space tools that are configurable and extensible in Guile. Source: over 3 years ago

• CompleteNoobs - free, open and reproducible.

  There is an operating systems that does all of that automatically for you. Every piece of software in the operating system is GPL-licensed and versioned by it's Git branch or archive MAC. It's called Guix OS, and is one of the official OS distributions of the GNU Project which is a member of the Free Software Foundation. Source: over 3 years ago

• Best distro for my pc

  I recommend GNU Guix if you're a beginner looking for performance. Https://guix.gnu.org/. Source: over 3 years ago