awesome-guix

List of awesome things and resources about GNU Guix (https://guix.gnu.org). Pull requests welcome.

Official Documentation

• https://guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf

  Reference card

• https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/

  GNU Guix Manual

• https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/

  GNU Guix Cookbook

Why Guix?

• Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix - Dave Thompson, Christopher Webber - LibrePlanet 2016 (video, pdf)

• https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/

  Guix: A most advanced operating system (and: A quick look at the history of operating systems)

Trying Guix

• https://github.com/fanquake/core-review/blob/master/guix/vm-intro.md

  Bitcoin Core notes on how to run Guix in a QEMU virtual machine

• https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/04/lets-try-guix.html>

  (Ade Malsasa Akbar, Ubuntubuzz) Let's Try Guix

Installing Guix and First Steps

• Pjotr Prins Guix notes

  • https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes
  • https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes

• https://gist.github.com/atweiden/c60d27357c182f0913d2

  Andy Weidenbaum Guix notes, 5 years old

Using Guix day-to-day

• https://emacs-guix.gitlab.io/website/

  Emacs-Guix: Use Guix without leaving Emacs

• https://gist.github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/844c211a91137c19607ae75b59fa116f

  (Guix-DE-Integration.md): A guide to better desktop environment integration for Gnu Guix

• https://www.draketo.de/software/guix-work.html

  (ArneBab): Using GNU Guix for software development (explains how to use Intellij, Zoom, npm...)

Going deeper with Guix

Programming Guix

Scheme programming resources by ascending complexity and specificity to Guix

• https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/A-Scheme-Crash-Course.html

  Scheme Crash Course, from the Guix Cookbook

• http://www.starynkevitch.net/Basile/guile-tutorial-1.html

  A Guile/Scheme mini-tutorial for GNU/Linux developers

• https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html (book)

  (Simply Scheme, 2/e © 1999 MIT): to learn scheme

• https://htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/

  (How to Design Programs 1/e © 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology): to learn scheme, with DrScheme as IDE

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition, 2/e © 1996 MIT

  • https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html (book)
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090 (videos)
  • https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ (unofficial ebook)
  • guix install sicp && info sicp (texinfo)

  To learn scheme also, the harder way.

• https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-gpce-20171023.pdf

  (Code Staging in GNU Guix): required reading to understand G-expressions (#~, #$, #$@)

• https://jeko.frama.io/

  (Guile Hacker Handbook)

Packaging for Guix

• https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/0943ed4ac4d59b6648de

  (Set Guix hacking env.md): "Use this to set up a functional Guix hacking space. Useful when porting apps to GNU Guix.", 5 years old

Imaging with Guix

• https://othacehe.org/the-guix-system-image-api.html

  Mathieu Othacehe. The Guix System image API

Deploying with Guix

• https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-guix-system-on-a-linode-server

  Running Guix System on a Linode Server

• https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix

  Running a Ganeti cluster on Guix

Troubleshooting

• Fixing warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)