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It is designed to give users <b>more control</b> over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to <a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine.html">reproduce over time</a> and <a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-deploy.html">deploy</a> to one or many devices.</p></div><div class="action-box centered-text"><a class="button-big button-light" href="/manual/en/html_node/Features.html">FEATURES</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/download/">DOWNLOAD</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/contribute/">CONTRIBUTE</a></div></section><section class="panel panel-dark"><div class="limit-width centered-block"><div><h2>Give Users Control</h2><p>Users on the same machine can manage their own packages independently from each other, without superuser privileges.</p><a class="button-big button-light" href="/manual/en/html_node/Package-Management.html">LEARN MORE</a></div><img src="/static/base/img/give-users-control.svg" alt="" /></div></section><section id="reproducible-outputs" class="discovery-box"><div class="limit-width centered-block"><h2>Reproducible Outputs</h2><p>Guix provides <a class="link-yellow" href="https://packages.guix.gnu.org/">thousands of packages</a> which include desktop environments, applications, system tools, programming languages and their data and other digital artifacts which work as the building blocks for creating <a class="link-yellow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds">reproducible</a> shell environments, containers and systems for different computing needs.</p></div><div class="grid centered-content text-larger"><div class="stack"><a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html">Package</a><img src="/static/base/img/reproducible-outputs-package.svg" alt="" /></div><div class="stack"><a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-shell.html">Shell Environment</a><img src="/static/base/img/reproducible-outputs-shell.svg" alt="" /></div><div class="stack"><a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-container.html">Container</a><img src="/static/base/img/reproducible-outputs-container.svg" alt="" /></div><div class="stack"><a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/System-Configuration.html">Systems</a><img src="/static/base/img/reproducible-outputs-systems.svg" alt="" /></div></div><div id="timeline" class="limit-width text-larger"><p id="timeline-today">Build an environment today</p><p id="timeline-lapse"><a class="link-yellow" href="/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine.html">Reproduce in time</a></p><p id="timeline-future">Get the same environment in the future<a class="link-yellow" href="/en/blog/2024/adventures-on-the-quest-for-long-term-reproducible-deployment/">*</a></p></div><a class="button-big button-light" href="https://packages.guix.gnu.org/">EXPLORE PACKAGES</a></section><section id="one-language" class="panel panel-dark"><div class=" limit-width centered-block"><div><h2>One Language for Everything</h2><p>Use Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.</p><a class="button-big button-light" href="/manual/en/html_node/Programming-Interface.html">CHECK THE API</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="https://gnu.org/software/guile/">WHAT'S GUILE</a></div><img src="/static/base/img/guile-logo-outlined-floating.svg" alt="" /></div></section><section id="all-free-software" class="panel panel-light"><div class=" limit-width centered-block"><div><h2>All of It, Free Software</h2><p>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.</p><a class="button-big" href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">LEARN MORE</a></div><img src="/static/base/img/people-focused.svg" alt="" /></div></section><section id="guix-in-your-field" class="panel-dark"><h2>GNU Guix in Your Field</h2><div class="limit-width centered-block"> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/blog/tags/software-development/">SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/blog/tags/bioinformatics/">BIOINFORMATICS</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/blog/tags/high-performance-computing/">HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/blog/tags/research/">RESEARCH</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/blog/">ALL FIELDS...</a></div></section><section class="panel panel-dark"><div class="limit-width centered-block"><div><h2>Get Guix</h2><p>You can use Guix on top of any GNU/Linux distribution of your preference. It won't clash with your distro's package manager.</p><a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/download/">DOWNLOAD</a></div><img src="/static/base/img/guix-shell.svg" alt="" /></div></section><section id="get-guix-system" class="panel panel-dark"><div class="limit-width centered-block"><div><h2>Get the Guix System</h2><p>A complete GNU operating system harnessing all the capabilities of the Guix software. Spawned by Guix itself.</p><a class="button-big button-light" href="/manual/en/html_node/System-Installation.html">OVERVIEW</a> <a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/download/">DOWNLOAD</a></div><img src="/static/base/img/guix-system-display.svg" alt="" /></div></section><section id="instructional-videos" class="discovery-box"><div class="limit-width centered-block"><h2>Instructional Videos</h2></div><div><a class="playlist-preview" href="/en/videos/2020/packaging-part-one/"><div class="poster-box"><img class="poster" src="/static/media/videos/2020/packaging-part-one.mini.webp" alt="" /><div class="poster-shadow"></div></div><div class="playlist-title"><img class="playlist-icon" src="/themes/initial/img/playlist-icon.svg" alt="Playlist: " title="Playlist" /> Packaging</div><div class="playlist-info">Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix</div></a><a class="video-preview" href="/en/videos/2020/asking-for-help/"><div class="poster-box"><img class="poster" src="/static/media/videos/2020/asking-for-help.mini.webp" alt="" /><div class="poster-shadow"></div></div><div class="video-title">Asking for help</div><div class="video-info">Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix</div></a><a class="video-preview" href="/en/videos/2020/system-graphical-installer/"><div class="poster-box"><img class="poster" src="/static/media/videos/2020/system-graphical-installer.mini.webp" alt="" /><div class="poster-shadow"></div></div><div class="video-title">Demonstration of the Guix System graphical installer</div><div class="video-info">Published Apr 15, 2020 by GNU Guix</div></a><a class="playlist-preview" href="/en/videos/2020/everyday-use-of-gnu-guix-part-one/"><div class="poster-box"><img class="poster" src="/static/media/videos/2020/everyday-use-of-gnu-guix-part-one.mini.webp" alt="" /><div class="poster-shadow"></div></div><div class="playlist-title"><img class="playlist-icon" src="/themes/initial/img/playlist-icon.svg" alt="Playlist: " title="Playlist" /> Everyday use of GNU Guix</div><div class="playlist-info">Published Mar 28, 2020 by GNU Guix</div></a></div><div class="action-box"><a class="button-big button-light" href="/en/videos/">ALL VIDEOS</a></div></section><section id="blog-latest-posts" class="panel-dark centered-text"><h2>Blog</h2><a class="item-preview" href="/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/"><h3 lang="en">Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 3)</h3><p class="item-date">January 28, 2025</p><p class="item-summary" lang="en"> Today we're looking at the results from the Contributor section of the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024). The goal was to understand how people contribute to Guix…</p></a><a class="item-preview" href="/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-2/"><h3 lang="en">Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 2)</h3><p class="item-date">January 24, 2025</p><p class="item-summary" lang="en"> The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in and we're digging into them in a series of posts! Check out the first post…</p></a><a class="item-preview" href="/en/blog/2025/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2025/"><h3 lang="en">Meet Guix at FOSDEM</h3><p class="item-date">January 21, 2025</p><p class="item-summary" lang="en"> Next week will be FOSDEM time for Guix! As in previous years , a sizable delegation of Guix community members will be in Brussels. 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