Summary
- Liberating. The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
- Dependable. It comes with the GNU Guix package manager, which in addition to standard package management features, supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and more.
- Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Discover GuixSD
GuixSD comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager.
Graphical log-in screen.
Control your computer with the GNOME desktop environment.
The Xfce desktop environment with GNU Emacs and IceCat.
Virtual machine started with 'guix system vm'.
Enlightenment, Inkscape, and Serbian text.
GuixSD and GNU Guix in your field
Read some stories about how people are using GuixSD and GNU Guix in their daily lives.
GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros
If you don't use the Guix System Distribution for a particular reason, you still can use the GNU Guix package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.
GNU Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.
Blog
Bootstrapping Rust
December 11, 2018
Slowly, systems programming languages are getting better in the sense of giving more guarantees and automating what can be automated without downsides. Rust is one of the more promising…
Back from SeaGL 2018
December 10, 2018
SeaGL 2018 has concluded. Thank you to everyone in the local Seattle community who came to participate! As previously announced , Chris Marusich gave…
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.16.0 released
December 6, 2018
We are pleased to announce the new release of GNU Guix and GuixSD, version 0.16.0! This release is (hopefully!) the last one before 1.0—we have been closing most key…
Contact
IRC Channel
Join the #guix channel on the Freenode IRC network to chat with the community about GuixSD or GNU Guix or to get…
Info Mailing List
Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). …
Help Mailing List
Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GuixSD and GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though we also accept other languages.…