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guix-the-package-manager can be installed on any GNU/Linux distribution. It's a great way to access bleeding-edge software on a "stable" distro such as Debian or CentOS.

It has some nice properties such as not needing root privileges to install things, atomic upgrades and rollbacks, reproducible builds, multiple or transient (optionally containerized) "environments" (collections of packages), etc.

Guix System is a full distro built around the package manager. It gives you atomic upgrades and roll-backs for the entire system (you can choose any previous "generation" in the boot loader).



This sounds quite exciting. I could use this right away, with all the software I’m used to, and get all the benefits.




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