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Title: "The GNU project has released GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.11.0" Date: 2016-08-04 22:30:48 Categories: [news] tags: [guix 0.11.0, guixsd, guixsd 0.11.0] Slug: the-gnu-project-has-released-gnu-guix-and-guixsd-0-11-0
Authors: sedlav
GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and respects the user's freedom.
Highlights:
- New GuixSD system services, including an mcron service, a Dropbear SSH service, and a Dico dictionary service.
- Infrastructure for whole-system tests.
- Compression support for guix publish.
- An Emacs mode to browse package definition locations.
- GuixSD support for RAID devices.
- 484 new packages, 678 package updates notably glibc 2.23 and linux-libre 4.7, as well as several bit-reproducibility issues fixed
- Assorted improvements to all the tool set, many bug fixes and improvements to the manual!