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An Introduction to GNU Guix

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In this video, I give a high level overview of the GNU Guix project and all the ways it can be used for crafting your system configuration. I also show examples of how I use GNU Guix to manage my system so that you get a preview of what we'll be covering in this video series!

Check out the show notes here: https://systemcrafters.cc/craft-your-system-with-guix/introduction

We cover the following topics:

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 0:51 Why talk about GNU Guix?
  • 2:11 What is GNU Guix?
  • 3:44 A functional package manager
  • 8:37 A "virtual environment" tool
  • 11:46 A tool for declarative system configuration
  • 14:34 A GNU/Linux distribution
  • 12:28 A full embodiment of GNU principles
  • 16:13 Why Guile Scheme?
  • 16:40 Looking at emacs-org-roam package
  • 22:55 Looking at 'guix repl'
  • 25:11 What about proprietary software?
  • 31:52 Some examples of how I use Guix
  • 32:13 Managing Emacs packages
  • 38:56 Installing categories of packages separately
  • 43:32 Configuring multiple systems
  • 48:03 What's next?

My Emacs configuration: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org My system configurations: https://github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Systems.org

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Intro music: Coriolis Effect by logos feat. stefsax, licensed CC-BY http://ccmixter.org/files/mseq/26296 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBaqOK75cho

2021-03-15
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