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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.

Meeting Notes

Attachments

  1. The Guix System Distribution
  2. David's slides


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