GNU Guix 0.8.2 Adds 718 New Packages

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 14 May 2015 at 09:01 AM EDT. 2 Comments
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A new release of the GNU Guix functional package manager is now available.

GNU Guix 0.8.2 is the new version and it offers 718 new packages and 189 package updates. There's also a new method to install Gix on a running system from binaries, GuixSD has new configuration interfaces, and there's a new guix publish command. There's also numerous bug-fixes with Guix 0.8.2.

More details on GNU Guix 0.8.2 can be found via savannah.gnu.org.
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