Summary
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices.
Give Users Control
Users on the same machine can manage their own packages independently from each other, without superuser privileges.
Reproducible Outputs
Guix provides thousands of packages which include desktop environments, applications, system tools, programming languages and their data and other digital artifacts which work as the building blocks for creating reproducible shell environments, containers and systems for different computing needs.
One Language for Everything
Use Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.
All of It, Free Software
Guix is a GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users. You are free to use, study, modify, and share Guix and all the packages it provides.
GNU Guix in Your Field
Get Guix
You can use Guix on top of any GNU/Linux distribution of your preference. It won't clash with your distro's package manager.
Get the Guix System
A complete GNU operating system harnessing all the capabilities of the Guix software. Spawned by Guix itself.
Instructional Videos
Blog
Time travel without borders
May 12, 2026
When offered the option to run other people’s code, a prime consideration is often ease of deployment. While much progress has been made in support of rapid deployment, the…
The 64-bit Hurd is Here!
March 1, 2026
Fifteen months have passed since our last Guix/Hurd on a Thinkpad X60 post and a lot has happened with respect to the Hurd . And…
Result of Sustain and Strengthen Fundraising
February 17, 2026
Results from Guix Fundraising We're on course to beat our fundraising target to sustain and strength Guix. We're bringing the fundraising…
Contact
IRC Channel
Join the #guix channel on the Libera Chat IRC network to chat with the community about GNU Guix or to get help in real-time. …
Info Mailing List
Subscribe to the info-guix low-traffic mailing list to receive important announcements sent by the project maintainers (in English). …
Help Mailing List
Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though we also accept other languages. …