About the Project
The Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) and the GNU Guix package manager are free software projects developed by volunteers around the world under the umbrella of the GNU Project. This is the official web site for both projects.
GuixSD is a GNU/Linux distribution committed to respecting and enhancing the freedom of its users. As such, it adheres to the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines.
GNU Guix provides state-of-the-art package management features such as transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language—which makes it nicely hackable.
GuixSD takes that a step further by supporting stateless, reproducible operating system configurations. This time the whole system is hackable in Scheme, from the initial RAM disk to the initialization system, and to the system services.
Maintainer
Guix is currently being maintained by Ludovic Courtès. Please use the mailing lists for contact.
Licensing
Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Contact
help-guix (archive)
Support for users of GNU Guix and
the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD). Until December 2015, the Guix-devel mailing list filled that role.
guix-devel (archive)
Discussion about the development of GNU Guix and the Guix
System Distribution (GuixSD). Until July 2013, the bug-Guix mailing list filled that role.
bug-guix (archive)
Bug reports for GNU Guix and the Guix System
Distribution. Messages sent to this list populate the bug database.
gnu-system-discuss (archive)
Discussion about the development of the broader GNU system.
gnu-linux-libre (archive)
Workgroup for fully free GNU/Linux distributions.
- Commit notifications
Guix-commits receives notifications of commits to the version control repository.
- Announcements
Announcements about Guix and most other GNU software are made on info-gnu (archive).
- Security reports
Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general security mailing list for advice.
- Internet relay chat
Some Guix users and developers hang out on the #guix channel of the Freenode IRC network (logs).
Artwork
This web site was designed by Luis Felipe López Acevedo. See the graphics page for information about the Guix and GuixSD logotypes.