Summary
- Liberating. Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.
- Dependable. Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and more. When used as a standalone distribution, Guix supports declarative system configuration for transparent and reproducible operating systems.
- Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Discover Guix
Guix comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager.
Instructional videos
GNU Guix in your field
Read some stories about how people are using GNU Guix in their daily lives.
GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros
If you don't use GNU Guix as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, you still can use it as a package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.
Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.
Blog
Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
March 13, 2024
Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can …
Fixed-Output Derivation Sandbox Bypass (CVE-2024-27297)
March 12, 2024
A security issue has been identified in guix-daemon which allows for fixed-output derivations , such as source code tarballs or Git checkouts, to be corrupted by an unprivileged…
Identifying software
March 4, 2024
What does it take to “identify software”? How can we tell what software is running on a machine to determine, for example, what security vulnerabilities might affect it? …
Contact
IRC Channel
Join the #guix channel on the Libera Chat IRC network to chat with the community about GNU Guix or to get help in real-time. …
Info Mailing List
Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). …
Help Mailing List
Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though we also accept other languages. …