Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GNU Guix

Product categories

Application Builder Container Tools Containers As A Service Developer Tools Front End Package Manager Linux Linux Distribution Linux Tools MacOS Tools Package Manager Programming Windows Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GNU Guix are NixOS, pkgsrc, and Docker. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

NixOS Landing Page
1

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions
pkgsrc Landing Page
2

pkgsrc

pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 8 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
3

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
4

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions
Flatpak Landing Page
5

Flatpak

Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions
Bedrock Linux Landing Page
6

Bedrock Linux

A meta Linux distribution which allows users to utilize features from other, typically mutually...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Linux Distribution #Operating Systems 78 social mentions
asdf-vm Landing Page
7

asdf-vm

An extendable version manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming #Programming Tools #Version Manager 163 social mentions
MacPorts Landing Page
8

MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 5 social mentions
Snapcraft Landing Page
9

Snapcraft

Snaps are software packages that are simple to create and install.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 87 social mentions
Vcpkg Landing Page
10

Vcpkg

C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 23 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
11

Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Sandboxie-Plus Landing Page
12

Sandboxie-Plus

Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation software for 32- and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Software Engineering #SRE 18 social mentions