title: Meet Guix at FOSDEM slug: meet-guix-at-fosdem-2017 date: 2017-01-17 14:30:00 author: Ludovic Courtès tags: FOSDEM, Talks ---

GNU Guix will be present at FOSDEM next month with talks on a number of areas of active development. The first one will be on Saturday, in the high-performance computing (HPC) track:

- Optimized and reproducible HPC Software deployment (Pjotr Prins and Ludovic Courtès).

Of course, the GNU Guile track on Sunday will be like home, with a bunch of talks there:

- An introduction to functional package management with GNU Guix (Ricardo Wurmus);
- Composing system services in GuixSD (Ludovic Courtès);
- Reproducible packaging and distribution of software with GNU Guix (Pjotr Prins);
- Mes—Maxwell's Equations of Software (Jan Nieuwenhuizen);
- Adding GNU/Hurd support to GNU Guix and GuixSD (Manolis Ragkousis);
- Workflow management with GNU Guix (Roel Janssen).

We'll end the day with a round table on the future of Guix.

FOSDEM takes place in Brussels, Belgium, on the 4th and 5th of February, with the Guile track all day long on Sunday 5th. Hope to see you there!

#### About GNU Guix

GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and respects the user's freedom.

In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable and hackable.

GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7.