1) Where are the screenshots?
2) Auto install CLI based linux + live USB, fast and easy, or bust
Edit
Ok found (lame idea to hide them in a sub menu) http://guix.gnu.org/screenshots/
So, question; why is it supposed to be even remotely interesting?
Because obviously, it's not clear
Edit2: Size is fine
It's an offspring of GNU organisation, so I would expect it to have something of interest to those after advances in open source. I wonder if anyone has tried it.
Purpose isn't clear
Color scheme for the website and logo are nice, but fucking fucks the screenshots, like in a fucking sub menu... Expect dumbshits like that down the line evidently
"screenshots" should be next to "download", because DUH, what the hell hare we LOOKING AT
Edit
Ah yeah, it's in overview... FUCKING SCROLLDOWN... I hate hybrid mobile/desktop interface for a reason
Edit2:
>Liberating. Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users. Dependable. Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and more. When used as a standalone distribution, Guix supports declarative system configuration for transparent and reproducible operating systems. Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
Pfff
Mental masturbation, what are talking about
So, question; why is it supposed to be even remotely interesting?
After some searching, it appears to be an experimental distro with some interesting (in certain use cases) features:
- Experimental support for Hurd kernel.
- Differing from traditional package managers, Guix (like Nix) utilizes a purely functional deployment model where software is installed into unique directories generated through cryptographic hashes. Dependencies from each software are included within each hash, solving the problem of dependency hell.[4] This approach to package management promises to generate more reliable, reproducible, and portable packages.
- The roll-back feature of Guix is inherited from the design of Nix and is not found in any of the popular Linux distributions such as Debian and its derivatives, Arch Linux and its derivatives, or in other major distributions such as Fedora, CentOS or OpenSUSE.
- The project's latest release is Guix System 1.1.0 which introduces a number of new features and improvements, including the ability to do large scale deployments using the package manager. "The new guix deploy tool allows you to deploy several machines at once, be it remote machines over SSH or machines at a virtual private server (VPS). Channel authors can now write news entries for their users, which are readily readable using guix pull --news. As a result, if you were already using Guix, you've probably already read these news! The new guix system describe command tells you which commits of which channels were used to deploy your system, and also contains a link to your operating system configuration file. Precise provenance tracking that gives users and admins the ability to know exactly what changed between two different system instances! This feature builds upon the new provenance service."
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