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44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

2022/4/30
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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:

- Guix)

- Stories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blog)

- Nix)

- Cool Guix features highlighted in this episode:

- Grafts (for security updates))

- guix challenge)

- guix shell) and guix environment)

- guix pack)

- Nonguix) (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to get their computers to work...)

- Reproducible Builds)

- Bootstrappable Builds)

- Mes) (see this video for an introduction))

- Reflections on Trusting Trust) (aka the "Thompson Attack" described in the episode)

- virtualenv)