Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis:

> What is the difference between guix and nixos?

Guix is a package manager similar to Nix, and it comes with the
beginning of a small user-land software distro (like Nixpkgs).

However, Guix and its distro are written in Guile Scheme, whereas
Nixpkgs and NixOS are written in a mixture of the Nix language and Bash
scripts.

Also, the projects are independently managed.  Guix is GPLv3+, whereas
Nix is LGPLv2+ and Nixpkgs is MIT/X11.

My goal is to eventually submit Guix and the Guix-based distro as
GNU projects, with the hope that we can build a GNU distribution that is
100% free software and technically more attractive than the alternatives.

There’s more info in my previous message at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-07/msg00000.html>
and in my GHM talk at
<http://people.bordeaux.inria.fr/lcourtes/doc/guix-ghm-2012.20120721.pdf>.

How does that sound?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.