Discover Guix

Guix comes with thousands of packages which include applications, system tools, documentation, fonts, and other digital goods readily available for installing with the GNU Guix package manager.

Graphical log-in screen

Virtual machine started with 'guix system vm'

Sway window manager running wayland

Enlightenment, Inkscape, and Cyrillic text

Xfce desktop environment

GNOME desktop environment

Instructional videos

Playlist: Packaging
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix
Asking for help
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix
Demonstration of the Guix System graphical installer
Published Apr 15, 2020 by GNU Guix
Playlist: Everyday use of GNU Guix
Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix

GNU Guix in your field

Read some stories about how people are using GNU Guix in their daily lives.

GNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros

If you don't use GNU Guix as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, you still can use it as a package manager on top of any GNU/Linux distribution. This way, you can benefit from all its conveniences.

Guix won't interfere with the package manager that comes with your distribution. They can live together.

Blog

Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment

March 13, 2024

Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can …

Fixed-Output Derivation Sandbox Bypass (CVE-2024-27297)

March 12, 2024

A security issue has been identified in guix-daemon which allows for fixed-output derivations , such as source code tarballs or Git checkouts, to be corrupted by an unprivileged…

Identifying software

March 4, 2024

What does it take to “identify software”? How can we tell what software is running on a machine to determine, for example, what security vulnerabilities might affect it? …

Contact

IRC Channel

Join the #guix channel on the Libera Chat IRC network to chat with the community about GNU Guix or to get help in real-time. …

Info Mailing List

Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). …

Help Mailing List

Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though we also accept other languages. …