The FOSDEM + Guix Days combo usually makes for an intense and exhaustive week, and this year’s edition was no exception! The Declarative & Minimalistic Computing track was home to a wealth of exciting talks, many of which about all things Guile—the Whippet garbage collector, the RDE Guix derivative, the Goblins distributed programming framework, and… not one but two talks about the Shepherd!

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Finally, twenty-one years after its inception (twenty-one!), the Shepherd leaves ZeroVer territory to enter a glorious 1.0 era. This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It’s also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.

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