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GNU Guix 1.5.0 released — 2026 — Blog — GNU Guix
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That sounds awesome
It also solves some really hard problems when building and distributing complex software with numerous dependencies. In a way, it is fullfilling the promises that docker, flatpaks, snap etc can't keep.
The tradeoff is that there's a Guixy way to do things that might not be obvious from the upstream docs, so could be harder to get e.g. a service up and running initially, but for me the reproducibility makes it a good tradeoff.