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  `((title .
           "Introducing Guix, a package manager and distro for GNU")
    (author . "Ludovic Courtès")
    (date unquote
          (make-date 0 0 0 0 22 11 2012 3600))
    (content
      div
      (p (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/"))
            "GNU Guix")
         " is an on-going project to build a purely functional package manager and free software distribution of the GNU system."
         (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."
         (br))
      (p "Guix is approaching its first alpha release.  It comes with a small and growing, self-contained user-land software distribution."
         (br))
      (p "The "
         (a (@ (href "http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP"))
            "road map")
         " details the current plan.  Let us know what you think, and join the fun!"
         (br)))))