I see a little of Hurd may be rubbing off on GNU/Linux (that .guix-profile thing reminded me one of the uses of user-land mount points / translators.) Seems like great news!
Regarding going Guix 1.0, I'd say we should see how Guix plays out, although I'm personally inclined to go Guix. This is the first time I heard of it. Is it a really sound distro? Aside from the package manager, how would it differ from gNewSense? dmd? Init system?On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:38 PM, rsiddharth <address@hidden> wrote:
> On December 11, 2013, GNU Guix developers released version 0.5 whichI skimmed the project's page, few months ago, it'd sound interesting,
> "can be used on top of an i686, x86_64, or mips64el GNU/Linux system, or in
> a virtual machine." [2], they say future versions will stand alone. So, GNU
> Guix is libre by default and, if I understand correctly, will be a complete
> operating system.
like being able to run different versions of a program, etc.
I'm tempted to say that we should go for GNU Guix 1.0. But, I'd like
> What do gNewSense users and developers think about GNU Guix? Should we go
> for gNewSense 4 or should we go for GNU Guix 1.0?
to hear what others think about this.
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