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It uses the <a href="https://gnu.org/software/linux-libre">Linux-libre</a> kernel, and support for <a href="https://gnu.org/software/hurd">the Hurd</a> is being worked on. As a GNU distribution, it is committed to respecting and enhancing <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">the freedom of its users</a>. As such, it adheres to the <a href="https://gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html">GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines</a>.</p><p>GNU Guix provides <a href="/manual/en/html_node/Features.html">state-of-the-art package management features</a> such as transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level mechanisms from the <a href="https://nixos.org/nix/">Nix</a> package manager, but packages are <a href="/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html">defined</a> as native <a href="https://gnu.org/software/guile">Guile</a> modules, using extensions to the <a href="http://schemers.org">Scheme</a> language—which makes it nicely hackable.</p><p>Guix takes that a step further by additionally supporting stateless, reproducible <a href="/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html">operating system configurations</a>. This time the whole system is hackable in Scheme, from the <a href="/manual/en/html_node/Initial-RAM-Disk.html">initial RAM disk</a> to the <a href="https://gnu.org/software/shepherd">initialization system</a>, and to the <a href="/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Services.html">system services</a>.</p><h3 id="mantainer">Maintainers</h3><p>Guix is currently maintained by Efraim Flashner, Mathieu Othacehe, Maxim Cournoyer and Tobias Geerinckx-Rice. Please use the <a href="/en/contact/">mailing lists</a> for contact. For sensitive issues, you can reach them using the <code>guix-maintainers@gnu.org</code> private alias.</p><h3 id="license">Licensing</h3><p>Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the <a rel="license" href="https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. </p></section></main><footer>Made with <span class="metta">♥</span> by humans and powered by <a class="link-yellow" href="https://gnu.org/software/guile/">GNU Guile</a>. <a class="link-yellow" href="//git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website">Source code</a> under the <a class="link-yellow" href="https://gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html">GNU AGPL</a>.</footer></body></html>