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GuixSD Manual
The documentation about the Guix System Distribution is available online as part of the GNU Guix package manager manual.
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Documentation for the GNU Guix package manager is available online. You may also find more information about Guix by running info guix.
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GuixSD is a distribution of the GNU operating system. Most GNU software is documented and the documentation is available online in various formats.
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help-guix (archive)
Support for users of GNU Guix and
the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD).
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Bug reports for GNU Guix and the Guix System
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Additional Documentation
- Functional Package Management with Guix, presented at the 2013 European Lisp Symposium (ELS), describes the rationale, design, and implementation of Guix's packaging API.
- Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix, presented at the 2015 International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (RepPar), discusses the use of Guix in high-performance computing (HPC).
- The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, 2006; this is Eelco Dolstra's seminal PhD thesis about the Nix package manager, which Guix is based on.
Talks
- November 2015, Inria: slides, video (WebM; 73 minutes)
- August 2015, Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (RepPar): slides
- May 2015, OpenTechSummit: slides
- February 2015, FOSDEM: slides, video (WebM; 47 minutes)
- August 2014, GNU Hackers Meeting: slides, video (WebM; 60 minutes)
- July 2014, Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014: slides
- February 2014, FOSDEM: slides, video (WebM; 55 minutes)
- August 2013, GNU Hackers Meeting
- June 2013, European Lisp Symposium (ELS): slides, audio
- July 2012, GNU Hackers Meeting: slides, video (Ogg/Theora; 84 minutes, 88.1MB)