🎉 We're on course to beat our fundraising goal to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix.

🙏 Thanks to everyone who has stepped forward to support the project!

Fantastic to see all the love and support from the community. All donations through @fsf and Guix Foundation are used to support Guix.

Read more about the campaign and how the donations will be used to support Guix:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/result-of-sustain-and-strengthen-fundraising/

#guix #guile #linux #FSF #nix #FreeSoftware

🎉 We're on course to beat our fundraising goal to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix.

🙏 Thanks to everyone who has stepped forward to support the project!

Fantastic to see all the love and support from the community. All donations through @fsf and Guix Foundation are used to support Guix.

Read more about the campaign and how the donations will be used to support Guix:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/result-of-sustain-and-strengthen-fundraising/

#guix #guile #linux #FSF #nix #FreeSoftware

You'd roughly need to:

- Figure out which program is currently focused
- Figure out the Git repo of this software
- Clone it into a temporary directory
- Set up the required tools to start hacking on it and compile it

As a quick prototype, I wrote a li'l Bash script that does some of these things. It makes heavy use of #nix and #nixpkgs:

https://codeberg.org/blinry/view-source-button

I enters a "dev shell" with the required tools already in the PATH, and even sets up a Git remote to start contributing. :D

Fuck it. Let's try #Nix.

You'd roughly need to:

- Figure out which program is currently focused
- Figure out the Git repo of this software
- Clone it into a temporary directory
- Set up the required tools to start hacking on it and compile it

As a quick prototype, I wrote a li'l Bash script that does some of these things. It makes heavy use of #nix and #nixpkgs:

https://codeberg.org/blinry/view-source-button

I enters a "dev shell" with the required tools already in the PATH, and even sets up a Git remote to start contributing. :D

@jbz
#HomeManager with extra steps

#archlinux #decman #nix

📦 Decman Is a Declarative Package and Configuration Manager for Arch Linux

｢ Decman manages an Arch Linux installation by enforcing a declared system state (written directly in Python) instead of applying changes imperatively ｣
https://linuxiac.com/decman-is-a-declarative-package-and-configuration-manager-for-arch-linux/

#archlinux #decman #nix

A Full-Source Bootstrap for NixOS.

This is impressive bachelor thesis, kudos to author: https://nzbr.github.io/nixos-full-source-bootstrap/thesis.pdf

It gave me a thought that guile implementation of build daemon will allow to build Guix itself much earlier in the chain (because we won't need c++, meson, and all other deps required for c++ build daemon).

#nix #nixos #guix

Adventures in Guix Packaging https://lobste.rs/s/uysha5 #lisp #nix
https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html

Adventures in Guix Packaging https://lobste.rs/s/uysha5 #lisp #nix
https://nemin.hu/guix-packaging.html

The first data science book that has a chapter on monads https://reproducible-data-science.dev/

Learn how to build robust #DataScience pipelines with #RStats, #Python , #Julia and #Nix !

The first data science book that has a chapter on monads https://reproducible-data-science.dev/

Learn how to build robust #DataScience pipelines with #RStats, #Python , #Julia and #Nix !

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

https://nemin.hu/guix.html

#nix

want to help bring digital autonomy using #NixOS?
fediversity.eu is hiring (EU-based) developers!
we'll also be at #fosdem's #nix track next week.

want to help bring digital autonomy using #NixOS?
fediversity.eu is hiring (EU-based) developers!
we'll also be at #fosdem's #nix track next week.

Why you do like guix vs nix or vis versa?

Please only answer if you've tried both guix and nix.

I've been thinking about getting into one or the other, but I can't decide, and I don't have all the time in the world, so whatever I choose, I'll probably be stuck with for like many months until I can switch if I don't like it.

#guix #nix

Interested in #declarative computing, #linux or #reproducible software? #Guix is going to be at #FOSDEM for lots of goodness on #guile #scheme and the #nix approach to packaging #FreeSoftware - check out the talks various people are giving:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2026/

As usual the Declarative and Minimalist computing track will have lots of interesting #lisp #spritely and #nrepl talks!

Why you do like guix vs nix or vis versa?

Please only answer if you've tried both guix and nix.

I've been thinking about getting into one or the other, but I can't decide, and I don't have all the time in the world, so whatever I choose, I'll probably be stuck with for like many months until I can switch if I don't like it.

#guix #nix