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(begin
(use-modules (srfi srfi-19))
`((title .
"GNU Guix ported to ARM and other niceties of the new year")
(author . "Ludovic Courtès")
(date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 9 1 2015 3600))
(content
div
(p "A new port of GNU Guix to ARM using the \"hard float\" ABI "
(a (@ (href "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=core-updates&id=aa1e19477b2d78884fc500fef497cd6677604d9b"))
"has just landed")
", thanks to the hard work of Mark H Weaver and John Darrington. This makes it the fourth supported architecture after x86_64, i686, and mips64el. We are looking for ARM hardware donations that would allow us to add this architecture to our "
(a (@ (href "http://hydra.gnu.org"))
"continuous integration build farm")
"; your help is welcome!"
(br))
(p "In other news, there has been work to "
(a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-11/msg00670.html"))
"improve Linux module handling")
", the addition of "
(a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00300.html"))
"session support")
" in the login manager, "
(a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00413.html"))
"more tooling")
" in 'guix lint', an "
(a (@ (href "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-12/msg00278.html"))
"nscd configuration interface")
", many new "
(a (@ (href "https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/package-list.html"))
"packages")
" (Xfce, NumPy, SciPy, and Clang, to name a few), and "
(a (@ (href "http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;package=guix"))
"many bug fixes")
". Getting closer to a new release!"
(br))
(h4 "About GNU Guix")
(p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix"))
"GNU Guix")
" is the functional package manager for the GNU system, and a distribution thereof."
(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. It also offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management. 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."
(br))
(p "At this stage the distribution 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 armhf."
(br)))))
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