44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix
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English - April 30, 2022 20:25 - 34.3 MBCrafts Leisure Technology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Guix turns ten!
We celebrate Guix's first decade
by highlighting ten great things about Guix!
Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating systems,
and why "Composable DSLs" are great!
Links:
Stories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blog
Cool Guix features highlighted in this episode:
guix shell and guix environment
Nonguix (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to get their computers to work...)
Mes (see this video for an introduction)
Reflections on Trusting Trust (aka the "Thompson Attack" described in the episode)