Planet Guix

Using Guix with Container Toolbox on an atomic Fedora distrbution.

Giacomo Leidi's talk at Guix.Social covering how to run Docker and OCI containers in Guix: bringing together the easy distribution of Docker containers, and the capabilities of Guix's declarative configuration. All part of his Gocix project (https://github.com/fishinthecalculator/gocix) which provides ready made services for Prometheus, Bonfire, Grafana, Forgejo and others.

Two security issues, known as CVE-2025-46415 and CVE-2025-46416 , have been identified in guix-daemon , which allow 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, as well as to subsequently gain the privileges of the daemon user. You are strongly advised to upgrade your daemon now (see instructions below), especially on multi-user systems. Both exploits require the ability to start a derivation build. CVE-2025-46415 requires the ability to create files in /tmp in the…

David Thompson, CTO of Spritely Institute gives a talk about 'Getting Rich Slow with Guile and Guix' at the Guix.social online meet-up. David presents how he came to Guile via his love of Emacs, his developments in Guix and games, and his work at the Spritely Institute bringing Guile Hoot to the Web browser via WASM.

David Wilson gives his tips, tricks and workflows for Guix system crafting. David is the creator of systemcrafters.net where he streams and creates content on Guix, Guile, Emacs and crafting the perfect Linux system.

Recording of Jgart's Guix.social talk. How to use Mumi to review patches in Guix. Also discusses setting up email with RDE's home services in Guix.

Ekaitz Zarraga talks about the mission to achieve a full source bootstrap of the RISC-V architecture on Guix Linux. He introduces RISC-V and what makes it different. Discusses the importance of a full source bootstrap for security and trust in computing. Then talks through the multi-year mission to make it a reality on Guix.

Andrew Tropin (https://trop.in) introduces Emacs-Arei a modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme. Using the Nrepl protocol foundation of Guile Ares-rs, it provides a highly interactive developer experience for programming Guile or Guix.

If you've ever struggled with Rust packaging, here's some good news! We have changed to a simplified Rust packaging model that is easier to automate and allows for modification, replacement and deletion of dependencies at the same time. The new model will significantly reduce our Rust packaging time and will help us to improve both package availability and quality. Those changes are currently on the rust-team branch, slated to be merged in the coming weeks. How good is the news? Migration of our current Rust package collection, 150+ applications with 3600+ dependency libraries, only took two…

Using Mailutil's Sieve to filter email