Item posted by Ludovic Courtès <civodul> on Tue 18 Nov 2014 08:14:03 AM UTC.

We are pleased to announce the next alpha release of GNU Guix, version 0.8.



The release comes both with a source tarball, which allows you to install it on top a running GNU/Linux system, and a USB installation image to install the standalone operating system.



The highlights for this release include:



See the original announcement for details.



About GNU Guix

GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU system, and a distribution thereof.



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, with Guile Scheme programming interfaces.



At this stage the 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.

