Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

[Quiliro Ordóñez]

El 07/10/12 15:59, Ludovic Courtès escribió:
> 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.

This is very interesting. Sustainability?

> 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>.

Nice. Audio?

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