Hi, [email protected] (Alfred M. Szmidt) skribis:
> What is the difference between guix and nixos? Guix is a package manager similar to Nix, and it comes with the beginning of a small user-land software distro (like Nixpkgs). However, Guix and its distro are written in Guile Scheme, whereas Nixpkgs and NixOS are written in a mixture of the Nix language and Bash scripts. Also, the projects are independently managed. Guix is GPLv3+, whereas Nix is LGPLv2+ and Nixpkgs is MIT/X11. My goal is to eventually submit Guix and the Guix-based distro as GNU projects, with the hope that we can build a GNU distribution that is 100% free software and technically more attractive than the alternatives. There’s more info in my previous message at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-07/msg00000.html> and in my GHM talk at <http://people.bordeaux.inria.fr/lcourtes/doc/guix-ghm-2012.20120721.pdf>. How does that sound? :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
