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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 5 10:32:42 2015 +0100

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+Ludovic Courtès will be giving a talk about GNU Guix and GuixSD 
[http://www.agendadulibre.org/events/10182 in Rennes, France, on November 9th]. 
 The event is organized by the three local free software and hacker 
organizations:
+
+_ “It used to work perfectly, then I upgraded something, and somehow…” Sounds 
like a déjà vu?  Sometimes feel like software deployment is unpredictable?  
Dissatisfied with Dockerfiles, Vagrantfiles, and co?  Ever wondered if you can 
trust your compiler or the integrity of those binary packages you have 
downloaded?_
+
+_This talk introduces GNU Guix, a package manager that implements the 
functional package management paradigm pioneered by [http://nixos.org/nix Nix] 
to address these issues.  Guix supports transactional upgrades and rollbacks, 
as well as support for multiple software profiles.  In this talk, I will 
introduce functional package management and demonstrate Guix on practical use 
cases.  I will discuss the implications on (bit-)reproducible packages and 
environments, and how this can lead to  [...]
+
+Earlier on that day, a similar talk with a focus on security and 
reproducibility issues will be given at [http://www.inria.fr/en/centre/rennes 
Inria], thanks to the support of [http://grothoff.org/christian/ Christian 
Grothoff] and the [http://sed.bordeaux.inria.fr/ software development 
department] in Bordeaux.
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+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional package manager 
for the GNU system.  The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced 
distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and 
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects 
the user's freedom].
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports 
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, 
per-user profiles, and garbage collection.  Guix uses low-level mechanisms from 
the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native 
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the 
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language.  GuixSD offers a declarative approach to 
operating system configuration management, and is  [...]
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine.  It is also possible to use 
Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and 
armv7.