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Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:59:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
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’.
- Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/10/05
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Simon Josefsson, 2012/10/11
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/10/11
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Simon Josefsson, 2012/10/11
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/10/11
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Simon Josefsson, 2012/10/11
- Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/10/11