GNU Guix 0.8.3 Brings 179 New Packages, New Commands

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Guix 0.8.3 Brings 179 New Packages, New Commands

GNU Guix, the functional package manager designed for the GNU system and GuixSD distribution, is out with a new release that has more than 800 commits over the past two months...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Guix-0.8.3-Released

[blackiwid]

I really like this distro, I live in emacs at least part time and even having no dnf installer like the internal elpa package-manager sucks.

But this goes further you can go into the sources you can rollback installions of packages you get more control and more integration.

its a bit sad that the installer seem to not work right in a vm. at least on my machine had many problems it bootet after using the konsole kvm qemu tool with gnome boxes it would not work for me. I think because its a different format no iso.

then I had big problems with network getting IP I think the devices got different names than the howto says, I dont remember either I could not get a ip or after that I had problems getting X to install or something.

have to give 0.8.3 another try.

btw I also installed the thing inside of fedora, for some small software it worked guile-wm had then compile install or starting problems.