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GNU Guix 1.0.0 has been released. The big 1.0 is an important milestone for most Free Software. In this case it is the result of seven years of development. GNU Guix is a general toolbox for software deployment, also known as a package manager, but with advancements over RPM and APT, which it can co-exist with. However it can also be used as a complete distro.
In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. When used as a standalone GNU/Linux distribution, Guix offers a declarative, stateless approach to operating system configuration management. Guix is highly customizable and hackable through Guile programming interfaces and extensions to the Scheme language.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @02:27PM (5 children)
Just another proof of Linux is made by freaks. Now, excuse me, I am busy rebuilding a hardened FreeBSD with virtualization enabled, encrypted zfs and jailed compartments for my latest homemade tiny robot.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday May 05 2019, @04:03PM (4 children)
Here's the thing about the GNU project: Richard Stallman has had this annoying habit of being right far more often than he's been wrong. Including both the potential and necessity of Free Software. BSD isn't the enemy, of course, but Stallman correctly figured that the most popular branch of BSD would end up being proprietary (the one belonging to Apple). The FSF's sense of vision and purpose has been clearer than anything its competitors (including sorta-allies like the Open Source Initiative and the Linux Foundation) have ever been able to stick to. The open-source types advocate the same techniques as the FSF does, but for the purpose of making money rather than making software, and while that's helped make software too it's more incidental than purposeful and the money-making side of it can and does lead to monstrosities.
So yeah, a bunch of freaks, but they're right.
Not to say that project management on the Hurd was less than ideal ...
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Sunday May 05 2019, @07:55PM (1 child)
I am of the opinion that the Linux Foundation is completely in Intel's pocket. It is terrible. Intel people have committing privileges that the general people do not have. Have a look at Yocto project and see how many turd commits and functionality are made by intel employees.
The same on the Linux kernel, where Intel and Linux foundation employees were among the ones signing off.[1]. See also the platinum privileges and who is part of the club.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f [kernel.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 05 2019, @11:19PM
The Linux Foundation has ZERO to do with development of the linux kernel or anything else. It is an industry group that wants to ensure that the free software they build their businesses on will continue to exist by funding select projects that provide value to its member corporations.
From their own website, "More than half of all Global 2000 software and telecom companies are members of The Linux Foundation and our projects." Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Huwawei and others who have been hostile to free software are members because their current products rely on free software (but they call it open source, even when it is free).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @12:38AM
gnu == quaint
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Monday May 06 2019, @01:59AM
Apple releases the Darwin kernel sources.