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(use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
`((title .
"GNU Guix 0.4 released; happy birthday, GNU!")
(author . "Ludovic Courtès")
(date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 27 9 2013 7200))
(content
div
(p "We are pleased to celebrate "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/gnu30"))
"GNU's 30th anniversary")
" with the fourth alpha release of "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix"))
"GNU Guix")
"."
(br))
(p "The highlights are:" (br))
(ul (li "New APIs for the instantiation of the global system environment, and for the creation of QEMU images of the system.\n")
(li "New --list-generations and --delete-generations command-line options.\n")
(li "60 packages were added to the distro, and 27 were upgraded, notably glibc.\n"))
(p "In addition, we provide a virtual machine image showing preliminary work toward getting a stand-alone GNU system. It features "
(a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd"))
"GNU dmd")
", a dependency-based init system written in Guile Scheme, and of course it comes with Guix installed. The image is self-reproducible in that the recipe to build it is part of Guix."
(br))
(p "See the "
(a (@ (href "https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-09/msg00235.html"))
"original announcement")
" for details."
(br))
(p "Join us on-line in the next couple of days for a "
(a (@ (href "/software/guix/news/join-guix-for-an-on-line-hackathon-on-sep-28-29.html"))
"hackathon")
" to celebrate GNU's birthday!"
(br)))))
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