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            <h1 class="featured-heading">The Guix System Distribution</h1>
            
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                    <b>Liberating.</b> GuixSD is an advanced distribution of
                    the <a class="hlink-yellow" href="https://gnu.org/">GNU 
                    Operating System</a> developed by the
                    <a class="hlink-yellow" href="https://gnu.org/">GNU Project
                    </a>—which respects the <a class="hlink-yellow"
                    href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">freedom 
                    of computer users</a>.
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                    <b>Dependable.</b> The <a class="hlink-yellow"
                    href="/software/guix/manual/">GNU Guix</a> Package 
                    Manager, in addition to standard package management
                    features, supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs,
                    unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and
                    garbage collection.
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                    <b>Hackable.</b> It provides <a class="hlink-yellow" 
                    href="https://www.gnu.org/s/guile/">
                    Guile Scheme</a> APIs, including high-level embedded
                    domain-specific languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages
                    are built and composed.
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                <a class="action download" href="/software/guix/download/">
                   TEST v0.8.2 (alpha)</a>
                
                <a class="action contribute"
                   href="/software/guix/contribute/">
                   CONTRIBUTE</a>
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        <h2>Discover GuixSD</h2>
        
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            <video class="video-preview"
                   poster="/software/guix/static/base/img/the-emacs-of-distros.png"
                   src="http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/misc/2015-01__GNU_Guix__The_Emacs_of_Distros.webm"
                   controls>
            </video>
            
            <p>
                January 2015, The Emacs of Distros (48 minutes)
            </p>
            
            <p>
                <a class="hlink-more-light"
                   href="/software/guix/help/#talks">Check all talks</a>
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            <p>
                <a class="hlink-yellow" href="/software/guix/manual/">
                GNU Guix Documentation</a><br>
                You may also find more information about GNU Guix by running
                info guix.
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            <p>
                <a class="hlink-yellow" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4584">
                Functional Package Management with Guix</a><br>
                A paper presented at the 2013 European Lisp Symposium (ELS),
                describes the rationale, design, and implementation of Guix's
                packaging API.
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                <a class="hlink-yellow" href="http://www.gnu.org/manual/">
                GNU Manuals Online</a><br>
                Primary documentation for official GNU packages.
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                Find more documentation</a>
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                   alt="Slim login manager"/>
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                   alt="Emacs user interface generations."/>
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        <h2>News</h2>
        
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        <a class="news-entry" href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-adds-guix-system-distribution-to-list-of-endorsed-distributions">
            <h4>
                FSF adds Guix System Distribution to list of endorsed
                distributions
            </h4>
            <p class="news-date">February 3, 2015</p>
            
            <p class="news-summary">
                The Guix System Distribution is a new and growing distro that
                currently ships with just over 1000 packages, already including
                almost all of the programs available from the GNU Project...
            </p>
        </a>
        
        <a class="news-entry" href="https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8193">
            <h4>GNU Guix 0.8.1 Released</h4>
            <p class="news-date">January 29, 2015</p>
            
            <p class="news-summary">
                We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix,
                version 0.8.1. The release comes both with a source tarball,
                which allows you to install it on top of a running GNU/Linux
                system, and a USB installation image to install the standalone
                Guix System...
            </p>
        </a>
        
        <a class="news-entry" href="https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8191">
            <h4>GNU Guix at FOSDEM</h4>
            <p class="news-date">January 27, 2015</p>
            
            <p class="news-summary">
                Guix will be present at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, with a
                talk entitled "The Emacs of Distros" this Saturday, at 3PM, in
                room H.1302. The talk will give an update on developments in
                Guix and the Guix System Distribution since last year...
            </p>
        </a>
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            <h3>IRC Channel</h3>
            
            <p>
                Some Guix users and developers hang out on the #guix channel
                of the Freenode IRC network. <small>(See
                <a href="https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/">channel logs</a>)
                </small>.
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                   href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23guix">
                   Connect
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            <h3>Report Bugs</h3>
            
            <p>
                Use the bugs mailing list to report bugs. Please check whether
                the bug is already in the
                <a href="http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=guix">
                bug database</a>.
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                <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel">
                    <b>guix-devel</b>
                </a>
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                    (
                    <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel">
                    archive</a>
                    )
                </small><br>
                Discussion about the development of GNU Guix and the Guix
                System Distribution (GuixSD).
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                <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guix">
                    <b>bug-guix</b>
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                    archive</a>
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                    archive</a>
                    )
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                Discussion about the development of the broader GNU system.
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                    archive</a>
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