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GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel

([Operating Systems] 3 Hours Ago GNU Guix 1.5)


GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release.

GNU Guix 1.5 brings the KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop as well as more than 12.5k new packages and 29.9k package updates. Those using GNOME on Guix will now find Wayland is used, GNU Shepherd 1.0 provides the init system, and a variety of other updates.

GNU Guix also brings command line improvements for the guix package manager command, security improvements, and more. There is also now RISC-V 64-bit support available for the GNU Guix system distribution. In experimental form is also a GNU Hurd x86_64 kernel option.

Besides changes to the GNU Guix platform itself, GNU Guix developers have adopted a new consensus-based decision making process. With that new process they decided to migrate to Codeberg for code hosting. They have also decided to adopt an annual release cycle for Guix moving forward.

GNU Guix 1.5 downloads and more details via [1]guix.gnu.org .



[1] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/gnu-guix-1.5.0-released//


Brief History Of Linux (#27)

Microsoft's position as the 5,000 pound gorilla of the computer industry
didn't change during the 1990's. Indeed, this gorilla got even more
bloated with every passing Windows release. Bill Gates' business strategy
was simple:

1. Pre-announce vaporous product.
2. Hire monkeys (low-paid temps) to cruft something together in VB
3. It it compiles, ship it.
4. Launch marketing campaign for new product showcasing MS "innovation".
5. Repeat (GOTO 1).

With such a plan Microsoft couldn't fail. That is, unless some external
force popped up and ruined everything. Such as Linux and the Internet
perhaps. Both of these developments were well-known to Bill Gates in the
early and mid 1990's (a company as large as Microsoft can afford a decent
spy network, after all). He just considered both to be mere fads that
would go away when Microsoft announced some new innovation, like PDAs --
Personal Desktop Agents (i.e. Bob and Clippit).