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(begin
  (use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
  `((title . "GNU Guix 0.1 released!")
    (author . "Ludovic Courtès")
    (date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 18 1 2013 3600))
    (content
      div
      (p "Version 0.1 of the GNU Guix functional package manager and its baby distribution of user-land software has been released.  See "
         (a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00191.html"))
            "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00191.html")
         " for the original announcement."
         (br))
      (p "In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports"
         (br)
         "\ntransactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection (more details "
         (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual"))
            "in the manual")
         ".)"
         (br))
      (p "The distro is not a bootable distro yet, but rather one to be installed on top of a running GNU/Linux system.  It includes GNU libc 2.17, GCC 4.7.2, GNU Emacs 24.2, GNU Guile 2.0.7, and more."
         (br))
      (p "Building the distribution is a cooperative effort, and you are invited to "
         (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#contribute"))
            "join")
         "!"
         (br)))))