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`((title .
"GNU Guix talk at OpenTechSummit, Berlin, May 14th")
(author . "Ludovic Courtès")
(date unquote (make-date 0 0 0 0 12 5 2015 7200))
(content
div
(p (a (@ (href "http://elephly.net/"))
"Ricardo Wurmus")
" will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD at the "
(a (@ (href "http://opentechsummit.net/"))
"OpenTechSummit")
" in Berlin, Germany, on May 14th. The talk will take place at "
(a (@ (href "http://opentechsummit.net/Programm.pdf"))
"3:15pm in track 2")
" and covers topics such as the fundamentals of functional package management, software management features with GNU Guix, and system description in GuixSD."
(br))
(p "Ricardo has been making major contributions to Guix over the last year and is a long-time free software contributor. If you are in Berlin area, do not miss the talk!"
(br))
(h4 "About GNU Guix")
(p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix"))
"GNU Guix")
" is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix."
(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 Guix System 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 armv7."
(br)))))
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