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01/03: announcements: Add news entry for Chris Webber's talk.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: 01/03: announcements: Add news entry for Chris Webber's talk.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:37:48 +0000

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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Sep 18 09:41:39 2015 +0200

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+[http://dustycloud.org/ Chris Webber] of [http://mediagoblin.org/ MediaGoblin] 
fame [https://chicagolug.org/meetings/2015-09-30.html will be giving two talks] 
for the Chicago GNU/Linux User Group meeting on September 30th.  The first talk 
will discuss the state of federation on the Web, while the second one is 
entitled _Functional Package Management and Deployment with Guix_:
+
+_Tired of being stuck after an upgrade? Wish your operating system could roll 
forward and backwards in time, more like Git? Want a way to get really 
reproducible software? Or just want a better alternative to $YOUR_LANGUAGE's 
stressful packaging ecosystem you can run on an existing distro? And why on 
earth would you want something called a "symlink forest" anyway? Discover all 
this and more in this exciting talk about the GNU Guix project!_
+
+If you're in the Chicago area, do not miss Chris!
+
+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional 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 
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects 
the user's freedom].
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports 
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, 
per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  Guix uses low-level mechanisms from 
the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the 
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to 
operating system configuration management, and is  [...]
+
+GuixSD 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 and 
armv7.



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