# Guix package manager

Date: 2020-08-19 08:21:44 +08:00Date modified: 2021-05-04 20:52:08 +08:00

GNU Guix is a derivation of Nix package manager in furthering Functional package management. As such, it addresses the concerns and the previous mistakes that the Nix community made while developing the software.

- Addresses storage issues commonly tied with reproducibility such as substitutes and grafts.

- Integration with other projects such as Software Heritage and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE).

- A focus on bootstrappable builds which includes various functions to setup your distribution from scratch.

- Empowering individual users which is emphasized further with the ability to installing packages without root privileges, creating local development environments, and using channels.

## Backlinks

- Common problems with software packaging
- Free software
- Openness makes diversity
- Software Heritage
- Software archives
- Code Staging in GNU Guix
- The Packaging Grail
- Flatpak packages
- Nix package manager