GNU Guix is 4 years old!

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1 GNU Guix is 4 years old! Ludovic Courtès GNU Hackers Meeting, Rennes, August 2016

2 The rise and fall of distros.

3 Debian and other distributions are going to be that thing you run docker on, little more. Jos Poortvliet, owncloud developer

4 It s also that thing you run inside Docker!

5 main griefs: distros are inflexible distros lag behind developers have to chase distros

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9 Giving up?

10 Giving up? app bundles

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13 ... still too low-level

14 ... still too low-level Maybe what we need is an app store that feels like apt, yum & co.?

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16 This is, to put it diplomatically, a heaping pile of steaming bullshit [...] served by the Canonical press department. Adam Williamson (Red Hat, Fedora)

17 This is, to put it diplomatically, a heaping pile of steaming bullshit [...] served by the Canonical press department. There is in fact another system with very similar goals, which is now called Flatpak [...] Adam Williamson (Red Hat, Fedora)

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20 app bundles are headed wrong difficulty to compose software packages no big picture integration work where s the Corresponding Source? app model/free software commons mismatch

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22 Guix 1. transactional package manager 2. software environment manager 3. APIs & tools to customize environments 4. packaging tools

23 $ guix package -i gcc-toolchain coreutils sed grep... $ eval guix package --search-paths... $ guix package --manifest=my-software.scm...

24 Want to get started hacking on GIMP?

25 Want to get started hacking on GIMP? A simple matter of installing the deps, right?

26 gimp pkg-config-0.29 intltool babl glib libtiff libjpeg-8d atk gtk libexif lcms-2.6 librsvg python python2-pygtk gegl file-5.25 gettext perl-xml-parser-2.44 perl dbus python-wrapper bash coreutils-8.24 libffi zlib tzdata-2015g libjpeg-9a gobject-introspection cups libxcomposite libxcursor libxdamage libxi libxinerama libxrandr gdk-pixbuf pango libxml bzip cairo libcroco libgsf openssl-1.0.2e gdbm-1.11 sqlite readline-6.3 tcl tk python2-pycairo python2-pygobject libpng expat libx python ncurses-6.0 bison acl gmp libcap-2.24 inputproto xextproto xtrans kbproto libxcb-1.11 python-minimal-wrapper xcb-proto-1.11 libxslt libpthread-stubs-0.3 libxau libxdmcp python-minimal libgcrypt xproto libgpg-error-1.21 util-macros libxft fontconfig libxext libxrender freetype-2.6 gs-fonts-8.11 renderproto m flex bison indent attr ghostscript libspectre poppler pixman libpaper openjpeg cairo avahi gnutls cups-filters libxfixes compositeproto damageproto xineramaproto randrproto harfbuzz libdaemon-0.14 which-2.21 guile libtasn1-4.7 libidn-1.32 nettle font-dejavu-2.34 ijs qpdf cups-minimal libunistring libltdl libgc libatomic-ops tar-1.28 libtool automake-1.15 autoconf-2.69 pcre-8.38 autoconf-wrapper-2.69 autoconf-wrapper-2.69 fixesproto-5.0 graphite icu4c-55.1 python2-fonttools-2.5 python2-setuptools python-waf-1.8.8

27 $ guix environment --container gimp... $ guix environment --container gimp \ --ad-hoc git autoconf automake gdb...

28 Creating package variants at the command line

29 $ guix package -i emacs \ --with-source=./emacs-25.1rc0.tar.gz...

30 $ guix package -i emacs \ --with-source=./emacs-25.1rc0.tar.gz... $ guix package -i git \ --with-input=openssl=libressl...

31 Your personal packages or variants in GUIX PACKAGE PATH!

32 Security updates grafted onto available binaries

33 gimp pkg-config-0.29 intltool babl glib libtiff libjpeg-8d atk gtk libexif lcms-2.6 librsvg python python2-pygtk gegl file-5.25 gettext perl-xml-parser-2.44 perl dbus python-wrapper bash coreutils-8.24 libffi zlib tzdata-2015g libjpeg-9a gobject-introspection cups libxcomposite libxcursor libxdamage libxi libxinerama libxrandr gdk-pixbuf pango libxml bzip cairo libcroco libgsf openssl-1.0.2e gdbm-1.11 sqlite readline-6.3 tcl tk python2-pycairo python2-pygobject libpng expat libx python ncurses-6.0 bison acl gmp libcap-2.24 inputproto xextproto xtrans kbproto libxcb-1.11 python-minimal-wrapper xcb-proto-1.11 libxslt libpthread-stubs-0.3 libxau libxdmcp python-minimal libgcrypt xproto libgpg-error-1.21 util-macros libxft fontconfig libxext libxrender freetype-2.6 gs-fonts-8.11 renderproto m flex bison indent attr ghostscript libspectre poppler pixman libpaper openjpeg cairo avahi gnutls cups-filters libxfixes compositeproto damageproto xineramaproto randrproto harfbuzz libdaemon-0.14 which-2.21 guile libtasn1-4.7 libidn-1.32 nettle font-dejavu-2.34 ijs qpdf cups-minimal libunistring libltdl libgc libatomic-ops tar-1.28 libtool automake-1.15 autoconf-2.69 pcre-8.38 autoconf-wrapper-2.69 autoconf-wrapper-2.69 fixesproto-5.0 graphite icu4c-55.1 python2-fonttools-2.5 python2-setuptools python-waf-1.8.8

34 GuixSD: declarative OS config

35 Linux-libre

36 Linux-libre initial RAM disk

37 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile

38 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services...

39 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services... Guile

40 Linux-libre initial RAM disk Guile PID 1: GNU Shepherd services... Guile applications

41 Status.

42 4 years! Aug GNU Hackers Meeting, Düsseldorf Nov dubbed GNU Jan July , installable operating system... Nov , new service framework, etc. Jan successful fundraiser for new build farm Mar , grafts, GNOME Aug , system tests, more services

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44 growth! 3,800+ packages 4 architectures binaries at new packages per release

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47 Scaling up.

48 importers & updaters guix import 8.5 importers: GNU, Nix, PyPI, CPAN, CRAN, Hackage, ELPA, Gem, npm (GSoC 2016) guix refresh 11 updaters: GNU, GNOME, KDE, Xorg, ELPA, CRAN, Bioconductor, Hackage, PyPI, Gem, GitHub guix lint -c cve (vulnerabilities)

49 contributions documented processes, code of conduct consensus-based decision making tools: guix lint (12 checkers!), guix build --rounds=2, etc. good reviews & mentoring

50 contributions documented processes, code of conduct consensus-based decision making tools: guix lint (12 checkers!), guix build --rounds=2, etc. good reviews & mentoring 30 committers, but 5 10 frequent reviewers

51 contributions documented processes, code of conduct consensus-based decision making tools: guix lint (12 checkers!), guix build --rounds=2, etc. good reviews & mentoring 30 committers, but 5 10 frequent reviewers 50+ s per day, hard to track patches Patchwork? QEMU s patches? suggestions?

52 maintainership, responsibilities Ricardo Wurmus co-maintainer since July! currently 3 build farm sysadmins... but heading towards distributed sysadmin! run GuixSD everywhere, version-control that eventually: guix deploy

53 build farm & funding hardware donated by FSF, TUM, GNU Spain, individuals 2 Novena boards (ARMv7) donated by Bunnie raised $8,000+ in January ,000 EUR donated by Igalia Guix Europe NPO created in France in 2016

54 build farm & funding hardware donated by FSF, TUM, GNU Spain, individuals 2 Novena boards (ARMv7) donated by Bunnie Thank You! :-) raised $8,000+ in January ,000 EUR donated by Igalia Guix Europe NPO created in France in 2016

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56 Libreboot inside! No ME TM!

57 What s left before 1.0?

58 getting to 1.0 guix pull & authenticated checkouts performance & usability improvements GuixSD encrypted root file system LVM support more system services fix bugs and glitches! self-hosted infra: guix publish and Cuirass

59 your help needed! install the distribution use it, report bugs, add packages help with the infrastructure + admin donate hardware/money share your ideas!

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