From 0735cb03a91d6fe1e644b0409ecc790eefe8f543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 01:05:37 +0200 Subject: website: Import news entries from Savannah as Haunt posts. * website/post: New directory, with 54 .sxml files. --- .../posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml (limited to 'website/posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml') diff --git a/website/posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml b/website/posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83eea8b --- /dev/null +++ b/website/posts/gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0.11.0-released.sxml @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +(begin + (use-modules (srfi srfi-19)) + `((title . + "GNU\xa0Guix and GuixSD\xa00.11.0 released") + (author . "Ludovic Courtès") + (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 3 8 2016 7200)) + (content + div + (p "It is a pleasure to announce the new beta release of GNU\xa0Guix and GuixSD, version 0.11.0!" + (br)) + (p "The release comes with USB installation images to install the standalone " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html")) + "GuixSD") + ", and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Requirements.html")) + "from source") + " or " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html")) + "from binaries") + ". " + (br)) + (p "It\x92s been 4 months since the previous release, during which 70 people contributed code and packages. The highlights include:" + (br)) + (ul (li "New GuixSD system services, including an " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Scheduled-Job-Execution.html")) + "mcron service") + ", a " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Networking-Services.html")) + "Dropbear SSH service") + ", and a " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Various-Services.html#Dictionary-Services")) + "Dico dictionary service") + ".\n") + (li "Infrastructure for " + (a (@ (href "http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8605")) + "whole-system tests") + ".\n") + (li "Compression support for " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-publish.html")) + "guix publish") + ".\n") + (li "An Emacs mode to " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Emacs-Package-Locations.html")) + "browse package definition locations") + ".\n") + (li "GuixSD support for " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Mapped-Devices.html")) + "RAID devices") + ".\n") + (li (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/")) + "484 new packages") + ", 678 package updates notably glibc\xa02.23 and linux-libre\xa04.7, as well as several " + (a (@ (href "https://reproducible-builds.org")) + "bit-reproducibility") + " issues fixed\n") + (li "Assorted improvements to all the " + (a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Utilities.html")) + "tool set") + ", many " + (a (@ (href "https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=guix#_4_2_5")) + "bug fixes") + " and improvements to the manual!\n")) + (p "See " + (a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00219.html")) + "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00219.html") + " for details." + (br)) + (h4 "About GNU Guix") + (p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix")) + "GNU Guix") + " is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and " + (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html")) + "respects the user's freedom") + "." + (br)) + (p "In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native " + (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile")) + "Guile") + " modules, using extensions to the " + (a (@ (href "http://schemers.org")) "Scheme") + " language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable and hackable." + (br)) + (p "GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7." + (br))))) -- cgit v1.2.3