GNU Guix Reviews and details

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• The Most Elegant Configuration Language

  And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months 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 / 5 months 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 / about 1 year 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 / about 1 year ago

• Linux saved my life

  And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS. Source: over 1 year 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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 / almost 2 years ago

• Immutable OS suggestions

  No one said Guix yet, might be worth a look: https://guix.gnu.org/. Source: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: almost 2 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: about 2 years ago

• Best distro for my pc

  I recommend GNU Guix if you're a beginner looking for performance. Https://guix.gnu.org/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Issues with fonts in Guix Home/Sway/Qutebrowser

  When I open qutebrowser, and go to certain websites (google.com, guix.gnu.org, etc.), text will not be rendered. This is what a certain page on guix.gnu.org looks like. Source: about 2 years ago

• So you want to write a package manager (Sam Boyer)

  GNU Guix, as a Project and OS package manager for projects in arbitrary languages (or alternatively, the Nix package manager, though I find the configuration language for Guix way better). Source: about 2 years ago

• Emacs term/vterm modes right-aligned only in openSUSE TW | KDE Plasma

  I like to get Emacs using guix, works the same across all distros, so you could try that. Source: about 2 years ago

• Skribilo: The Document Programming Framework

  Trivia note: Skribilo was developed by Ludovic Courtès, one of the key figures behind Guix (https://guix.gnu.org/). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago