GNU Guix

“I feel it's unique and special enough that it is deserving of some money falling from the sky.”

“I've been curious about Guix for a while, one of these days I need to dive in and explore deeper.”

“which has bootstrapped its entire system from source code from only a tiny verifiable binary”

“Guix has some security advantages (grafts for security patches, full source bootstrapping, 100% OSS)”

“It solves all of these issues, and already has a good story both for cross and native builds on a variety of architectures.”

“There is already multi-platforms multi-languages package managers that do this job relatively well”

“openSUSE, ChromeOS, Nix, Guix, and indeed, TinyCore all achieve the same goal with tooling that is about 1% of the size or complexity”

“Guix did this first, though they still have a much more relaxed supply chain security policy”

“I'm attracted to guix's more straightforward design and Scheme-based compiled configuration”

“I use a Guix manifest for every project, which describes what dev tools and dependencies I want.”

“install Guix, read the Info manual on 'guix import' and just create a shell/container”

“Guix saves you from this. You can import NPM packages in a container (not even touching $HOME)”

“The Guix PM in this context can create an isolated environment and import PyPI packages for you”

“With Guix you can set everything for under a config.scm file in a reproducible way”

“it seems very readable to me. It's cleanly structured and makes good use of indentation.”

“Guix and Hurd are the only non-trainted environments to develop non-corporate driven environments”

“I've found it way easier to understand, but it has teething issues that NixOS doesn't”

“Guix wants to do the same but with Guix and Guile for everything, and IMHO it's a good step over Unix.”

“It's powerful when you can test that system as an OCI container (or as a VM with Nix/Guix).”

“Nix and Guix are package managers that (very simplified) model the build process of software as pure functions”

“setting up an isolated environment with time-bound tools it's basically what Guix was born for, reproducibility”

“They were built from the ground up to be able to have multiple, simultaneous versions of everything installed in separate store”

“guix shells (container mode) for my agents and sharing just the directories they need”

“Guix itself enriches the ecosystem, and Guile projects can use Guix to make them reproducible.”

“Guix is AFAIK the only distro with a well-paved bootstrap path from a simple assembler to a fully-working distro”

“The only problems appear when your Linux distribution decides for some reason to make difficult for its users to choose the NVIDIA drivers, like GUIX.”

“Guix because its development is centered away from the desktop and it lacks some elements common in modern distros”

“Guix has rollbacks for the whole package manager and system so whole backups aren't mandatory”

“Guix remains niche not because of GNU philosophy but because it doesn't do the same”

“it was incompatible with a cross-compile target, or it did not support my target arch properly”

“To match the npm or pip model you'd go with nix or guix or cmake and you'd vendor everything”

“the installation process was made too difficult due to the lack of non-free software available during install time”

“combine Guix and other guile scheme packages that are awesome like mcron into their stacks”

“I'm totally sold on Guix, and have been using it on an old laptop for the last few months.”

“NixOS and GuixSD make it quite trivial to sandbox applications in a declarative fashion using firejail”

“An option to work on bare metal via reproducible environment management tools like Nix, Guix, or Spack is a valuable alternative”

“At least Guix uses a lisp variant so that some of the skills you gain are transferable”

“A good package manager, e.g. GNU Guix, let's you define a reproducible environment of all of your dependencies.”

“so far only GNU Guix and StageX have worked out how to start from the BB work to get a full distro”

“with the rise of Nix and Guix, we've gotten a lot closer to reproducible-everything”