Functional Package Management and GNU Guix
Date and Time
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building E-51, Room 325
Presenters
David Thompson , GNU Hacker - dthompson2 worcester edu
Summary
An overview of functional package and configuration management using GNU Guix
Abstract
David gives an overview of what functional package management is all about and how it differs from traditional imperative package management.
He also demonstrates some interesting features of Guix such as transactional package management, unprivileged package management, bit-reproducible builds, and full system configuration management.
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