44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

Guix turns ten! We celebrate Guix's first decade by highlighting ten great things about Guix! Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating systems, and why "Composable DSLs" are great!

Links:

• Guix

• Stories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blog

• Nix

• Cool Guix features highlighted in this episode:

  • Grafts (for security updates)

  • guix challenge

  • guix shell and guix environment

  • guix pack

• Nonguix (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to get their computers to work...)

• Reproducible Builds

• Bootstrappable Builds

• Mes (see this video for an introduction)

• Reflections on Trusting Trust (aka the "Thompson Attack" described in the episode)

• virtualenv