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title: Meet Guix at FOSDEM
slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2017
date: 2017-01-17 14:30:00
author: Ludovic Courtès
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<p>
GNU Guix will be present
at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017">FOSDEM</a> next month with
talks on a number of areas of active development. The first one
will be on Saturday, in
the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/hpc,_big_data_and_data_science/">high-performance
computing (HPC) track</a>:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/hpc_deployment_guix/"><i>Optimized
and reproducible HPC Software deployment</i></a> (Pjotr
Prins and Ludovic Courtès).
</li>
</ul>
Of course,
the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/gnu_guile/">GNU Guile
track</a> on Sunday will be like home, with a bunch of talks there:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixintroduction/"><i>An
introduction to functional package management with
GNU Guix</i></a> (Ricardo Wurmus);</li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/composingsystemservicesinguixsd/"><i>Composing
system services in GuixSD</i></a> (Ludovic Courtès);</li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixpackages/"><i>Reproducible packaging and distribution of
software with GNU Guix</i></a> (Pjotr Prins);</li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixsdbootstrap/"><i>Mes—Maxwell's
Equations of Software</i></a> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen);</li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixhurd/"><i>Adding
GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD</i></a> (Manolis
Ragkousis);</li>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixworkflowmanagement/"><i>Workflow
management with GNU Guix</i></a> (Roel Janssen).</li>
</ul>
We'll end the day with
a <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/futureofguix/">round
table</a> on the future of Guix.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2017">FOSDEM</a> takes place in
Brussels, Belgium, on the 4th and 5th of February, with
the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/gnu_guile/">Guile
track</a> all day long on Sunday 5th. Hope to see you there!
</p>
<h4>About GNU Guix</h4>
<p>
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guix">GNU Guix</a> is a
transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System
Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system
that relies on GNU Guix
and <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html">respects
the user's freedom</a>.<br /></p><p>In addition to standard package
management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and
roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix
package manager, except that packages are defined as
native <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile">Guile</a> modules,
using extensions to the <a href="http://schemers.org">Scheme</a>
language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system
configuration management, and is highly customizable and
hackable.<br />
</p>
<p>
GuixSD 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.
</p>
</div>
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