title: Meet Guix at FOSDEM
slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2017
date: 2017-01-17 14:30:00
author: Ludovic Courtès
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  <p>
    GNU Guix will be present
    at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017">FOSDEM</a> next month with
    talks on a number of areas of active development.  The first one
    will be on Saturday, in
    the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/hpc,_big_data_and_data_science/">high-performance
    computing (HPC) track</a>:

    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/hpc_deployment_guix/"><i>Optimized
	    and reproducible HPC Software deployment</i></a> (Pjotr
	Prins and Ludovic Courtès).
      </li>
    </ul>

    Of course,
    the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/gnu_guile/">GNU Guile
    track</a> on Sunday will be like home, with a bunch of talks there:

    <ul>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixintroduction/"><i>An
	    introduction to functional package management with
	    GNU Guix</i></a> (Ricardo Wurmus);</li>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/composingsystemservicesinguixsd/"><i>Composing
	    system services in GuixSD</i></a> (Ludovic Courtès);</li>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixpackages/"><i>Reproducible packaging and distribution of
	    software with GNU Guix</i></a> (Pjotr Prins);</li>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixsdbootstrap/"><i>Mes—Maxwell's
	    Equations of Software</i></a> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen);</li>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixhurd/"><i>Adding
	    GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD</i></a> (Manolis
	Ragkousis);</li>
      <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixworkflowmanagement/"><i>Workflow
	    management with GNU Guix</i></a> (Roel Janssen).</li>
    </ul>

    We'll end the day with
    a <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/">round
    table</a> on the future of Guix.
  </p>

  <p>
    <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017">FOSDEM</a> takes place in
    Brussels, Belgium, on the 4th and 5th of February, with
    the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/gnu_guile/">Guile
    track</a> all day long on Sunday 5th.  Hope to see you there!
  </p>

  <h4>About GNU Guix</h4>
  <p>
    <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guix">GNU Guix</a> 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="https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html">respects
      the user's freedom</a>.<br /></p><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="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile">Guile</a> modules,
    using extensions to the <a href="http://schemers.org">Scheme</a>
    language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system
    configuration management, and is highly customizable and
    hackable.<br />
  </p>
  <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.
  </p>
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