01/05: announcements: Add GSoC update.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Jul 19 11:03:38 2015 +0200

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+This year Guix was lucky to have 
[https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8264 3 GSoC projects], and 
they have made rather good progress so far:
+
+* Manolis successfully completed the recipes to get a 
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd cross-compilation 
toolchain to GNU/Hurd], with part of the work already in the main branch.  This 
allowed him to produce statically-linked bootstrap binaries (stumbling upon 
nasty ld.so issues on the way.)  Manolis is now 
[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00029.html running 
Guix and building packages natively] on GNU/Hurd, which will constitute a large 
p [...]
+* Rémi has written [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/gnunet.git/tree/ 
Guile bindings] to crucial parts of the [https://gnunet.org GNUnet] API, 
including the file sharing API.  This will allow him to move to the next step: 
Writing [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00033.html 
tools to publish and retrieve] Guix 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitutes.html 
substitutes] (pre-built binaries.)
+* Rohan laid the foundations of the 
[http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/dhcp.git/tree/ DHCP client].  The 
current code can send packets on all the configured network interfaces.  Rohan 
hopes to have working code to establish leases in the following weeks.
+
+Happy hacking!
+
+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional package manager 
for the GNU system.  The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced 
distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and 
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects 
the user's freedom].
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports 
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, 
per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  Guix uses low-level mechanisms from 
the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the 
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to 
operating system configuration management, and is  [...]
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to use 
Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and 
armv7.