Planet Guix

We're on our way It's been a month since we started the fundraising campaign to Sustain and Strengthen Guix. So far we've raised €6562 which is around 40% of our €15000 annual goal. If you'd like to support the project's fundraiser there's still time, pop over to the donate page now! DONATE NOW There have been a range of donations, both one-off and recurring. A few people have made large one-off donations, one of over €2150!There have been a couple between €500-€250 and a…

Guile Load Path is a place (or more precisely places), where Guile looks for the source code. This is the first thing one needs to set correctly to work on a Guile Scheme project. It makes Guile aware both of your own modules and external dependencies. For more details refer to Load Paths page in Guile Reference Manual. This guide will focus on getting and setting the right values for it and discussing different approaches to do so.

This fictional story begins more than 10 years ago. I was a student at technical university and was confused by how outdated some of the programming-related courses are. I was checking out a few first lections and usually skipping the rest of them (except a couple courses that were fun and uptodate). In my spare time I was tinkering on gentoo linux, cybersecurity and competitive programming (codeforces, ACM ICPC, etc). I wanted to start working ASAP, so that I could finally get to the most interesting part, but man, how wrong I was...

Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix. Guix is completely independent from any company or institution, we rely on the support of our community to fund the project. If you can, please help sustain Guix by making a donation . DONATE NOW Why we need your support Like many Free Software projects we need financial support because running a project is expensive. We incur costs for development infrastructure, facilitating developer collaboration and supporting the community around the project. As a package manager…

A cloud-init service for Guix is still a work in progress. Meanwhile, here's how you can deploy Guix on DigitalOcean right away.

Complex end-to-end tests in development repositories involving packages written in several languages are a chore to describe and maintain. Often, the only recourse is to pull in pre-built binaries or haul around heavy Docker images. Could there be a better way? Could it be Guix (spoiler alert: yes!)?

A security issue, CVE-2025-59378 , has been identified in guix-daemon , which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of any of the build users and subsequently use this to manipulate the output of any build. In the case of the rootless daemon, this also means gaining the privileges of guix-daemon . All systems are affected, whether or not guix-daemon is running with root privileges. You are strongly advised to upgrade your daemon now (see instructions below). The only requirements to exploit this are the ability to create and build an arbitrary derivation that has …

What is the ubiquitous with-imported-modules in G-expressions? Why do you need it when you already have use-modules?

Indent generated G-expression scripts with this trick to aid in debugging!

Mes 0.27.1 is a bug-fix release. It represents 53 commits by four people over one year. This release resurrects supports development builds with gcc-14 and adds support for using NYACC versions 0.99.0 through 2.02.2.