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Guix System v1.2.0
Strap in for this wild tour of the distro designed for the uber-geeks with your knowledgeable guide Mayank Sharma.
Once installed with an Xfce desktop, Guix presents numerous usability issues for novice users.
IN BRIEF
With its usability chasm of adopting the GNU principle of free software, which is noble but impractical, despite the superiority of the Guix System it will fail to appeal to a large number of average Linux users. See Debian GNU/ Hurd, NixOS.
Guix System is a stateless meta distribution whose origins can be traced back to a research paper. The operating system, which has had its 1.2.0 release, is built around the Guix package manager, which is one of the most advanced open source package management systems out there.
Guix is a reimplementation of the Nix package manager and Guix System is the operating system equivalent of NixOS. Guix System is a significant departure from the usual Linux distros.
For starters, Guix System strives to be a fully programmable OS, and everything from its GNU shepherd init system to its package manager is written in GNU’s Guile Scheme programming language.
In fact, the distro also has the distinction of being recognised by the GNU Foundation as a free software project. While it uses the Linux-libre kernel for the time being, developers are chipping away in the background to prepare it for the GNU project’s Hurd kernel.
Salute Guix