After three years in development, GNU Guix 1.5 has been released, marking the start of a newly adopted annual release cycle. But if this name has flown under your radar, let me briefly explain what it is before we move on to the news.
First and foremost, Guix is both a transactional package manager and a full GNU/Linux distribution built around it. As a package manager, guix can be installed on top of most existing Linux systems, where it operates independently of native tools like apt or dnf.
At the same time, Guix System is a standalone operating system (Linux distro) that uses the same technology to declaratively manage the entire OS, including the kernel, system services, and user environments.
Gnome 46? And they won’t update it for at least another year?
Jeez, we’re almost at Gnome 50…
Hey, Guix contributor here. We actually already have Gnome 48 almost done. Keep in mind that Guix is a rolling release so there is no need to wait a year to get the updates. I think we’re on pretty good pace to catch up with upstream before next year. Still, it takes a lot of effort to package gnome, especially with the growing reliance on systemd!