Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> writes:

So is guix GNU Herd or some new GUI frontend?

It's big news on the Guile Scheme mailing list. It's a package managment system. -- Keith From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) To: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org, gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org, info-gnu@gnu.org Subject: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0 released Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.15.0, representing 7,020 commits by 100 people over 7 months. This release brings us close to our goals for 1.0, so it’s probably one of the last zero-dot-something releases. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution, GuixSD, is an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management and is highly hackable. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. GuixSD uses the Linux-Libre kernel and the GNU Shepherd init system. It can be used on an i686, x86_64, armv7, or aarch64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on armv7, aarch64, and mips64el. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/