Cross-post from Reddit to clarify what exactly Guix is: GNU Guix is a Guile-using Nix-derivative purely functional package manager and at the same time package

Cross-post from Reddit to clarify what exactly Guix is: GNU Guix is a Guile-using Nix-derivative purely functional package manager and at the same time package recipe database. (Shipped in one so the recipe language doesn't need to be frozen for compatibility.) Development of the Guile-based init system DMD is closely tied with it. Its last few releases include stuff to install a stand-alone GNU/Linux-libre system which might be sanctioned as the GNU Operating System if RMS approves. Since it builds heavily on GNU software like Guile (GNU's official scripting/extension language) for its init system and package manager / deployment tool, prioritizes GNU packages in its database, and remains ostensibly kernel-agnostic with the hopes of running on the Hurd in the future, it can be seen literally as the GNU OS. (GRUB, GCC, Autotools, Glibc, Bash, coreutils, etc. all go without saying.) (Until approval of the name GNU, the OS simply has the same name as the package manager: Guix.) And homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/