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Well, it shares the same concepts, although instead of nix it uses guix which many of us like better than nix.
by bjoli 8y ago
Well, it shares the same concepts, although instead of nix it uses guix which many of us like better than nix.
- gmfawcett 8y agoOne caution though -- being a GNU project, Guix takes a much stronger stance on non-free software than Nix does. In Nix, there's a flag you can enable that will let you build non-free software in the Nixpkgs repository. I don't believe the same flag exists in Guix. Note that either system could be used to build your own non-free software, this is more a question of what is available in the shared repositories.
- red-tea 8y agoThere's no such thing as "your own nonfree software". If you wrote it then to you it's always free.
- dtzWill 8y agoAnd in particular guix uses nix internally-- but (AFAIK) at an API level and very little of the nix language. So it's rather related for that reason :).
- davexunit 8y agoGuix uses a fork of the nix-daemon (for now), but otherwise uses nothing from the Nix project.