GNU Guix 0.9 Brings Various Improvements, 543 New Packages

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GNU Guix 0.9 Brings Various Improvements, 543 New Packages

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 5 November 2015 at 08:06 AM EST. 3 Comments

Version 0.9.0 of the GNU Guix functional package manager is now available and with this release comes USB installation images to install GuixSD from source or binaries atop of a GNU/Linux system.

GNU Guix 0.9 brings support for automatic container provisioning, a new service composition framework, new guix graph and guix challenge sub-commands, many bug-fixes, and 543 new packages.

More details via Guix's GNU.org project site.

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