02/02: announcements: Add news entry for the Hurd/MIPS/ARM ports.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Sep 7 14:49:36 2015 +0200

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+Quite a lot has happened lately when it comes to porting Guix and GuixSD to 
other systems.
+
+A few weeks ago, Manolis Ragkousis 
[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg00379.html announced] 
the completion of the GSoC project whose purpose was to port Guix to the Hurd.  
The system distribution, GuixSD, cannot run GNU/Hurd yet, but the package 
manager itself can both cross-compile from GNU/Linux to GNU/Hurd and build 
natively on GNU/Hurd.  The work of Manolis is being gradually merged in the 
main branch.
+
+More recently, Mark H Weaver 
[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg00500.html posted] a 
series of patches porting GuixSD to MIPS (Lemote Yeeloong), making it the first 
GuixSD port to non-Intel-compatible hardware (the package manager itself has 
supported mips64el [https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7766 for 
two years] already.)  By removing several platform-specific assumptions, this 
work paves the way for future ports.
+
+Lastly, we are glad to report the [http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/donate/ 
donation] of 
[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-09/msg00134.html two ARM 
machines] for our build farm.  They will allow us to continuously test the ARM 
port, which was completed 
[https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8175 earlier this year], and 
to publish pre-built binaries on our [http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master 
build farm].  We are grateful to the donors whose contribution m [...]
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+== 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.