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44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

FromFOSS and Crafts


44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

FromFOSS and Crafts

ratings:
Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Apr 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Guix turns ten!
We celebrate Guix's first decade
by highlighting ten great things about Guix!
Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating systems,
and why "Composable DSLs" are great!Links:GuixStories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blogNixCool Guix features highlighted in this episode:Grafts (for security updates)guix challengeguix shell and guix environmentguix packNonguix (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to get their computers to work...)Reproducible BuildsBootstrappable BuildsMes (see this video for an introduction)Reflections on Trusting Trust (aka the "Thompson Attack" described in the episode)virtualenv
Released:
Apr 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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