In the last few months, I have installed and upgraded my second preferred GNU/Linux system, GNU Guix, on multiple boxes. Regarding that system, I have already written a few introductory posts in the recent past. This is an update about my experiences as a user and developer. I still think Guix is a giant step forward in packaging and management, in comparison with Debian and other distributions, for elegance and inner coherence.
It is specifically convenient using Guix-the-system within a foreign distribution,
such as Debian, for development and tests. The package management
system can be used on top of the system, but I find it quite interesting to
explore the potential of the Guix distribution in the context of virtualized
environments. For personal use, that is also the ideal way to avoid breaking
your own daily boxes every couple of days with daredevil approaches to personal
computing.
Let's give a second look at Guix-the-system the main GNU Project distribution
I dealt with in a previous
post. This post is not
specifically limited to the distribution, it is also of interest when using Guix
in a foreign distribution, even if some configuration details change.
In the last few days, I got familiar with Guix, which is both a modern package
management system and the main GNU Project distribution for Linux and Hurd (the Guix system).
As a package management system, it can be installed on most foreign distributions,
including Debian and any other, as an alternative/additional packaging system.