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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-11-18 15:25:01 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2012-11-18 15:25:01 +0100
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Please email <ludo@gnu.org> or <nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>, or
join #guile or #nixos on irc.freenode.net or `civodul'.
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+* Related software
+
+ - [[http://nixos.org][Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS]], functional package manager and associated
+ software distribution, are the inspiration of Guix
+ - [[http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/][GNU Stow]] builds around the idea of one directory per prefix, and a
+ symlink tree to create user environments
+ - [[http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~arnej/store/storedoc_6.html][STORE]] shares the same idea
+ - [[https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/][GNOME's OSTree]] allows bootable system images to be built from a
+ specified set of packages
+ - The [[http://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software
+ distribution; unlike Guix, it relies on core tools available on the
+ host system