guix-nonfree

I haven't tried it personnally but Guix is similar with config in guile scheme. Have a look at the documentation [1][2]. Caveat: it is a gnu project so no proprietary stuff like firmwares and drivers included out of the box (but there is a community guix nonfree project available [3]). I believe that isn't a problem for virtual machine servers anyway. [1] guix cookbook: https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/index.html#Top [3] guix manual: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/index.html#Top [3] https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree

Thanks for the manager link. > There are several third party channels covering non-free software needs. Can you link some of them? I've kept a list over the years for when I decided to try Guix again, but it's not up to date. And some like [1] aren't being maintained anymore. While I support this strong stance on free software from a philosophical standpoint, it's practically unusable as my main distro because of my current hardware. I'd love to see a distro based on Guix that breaks this GNU principle and focuses on general ease of use. [1]: https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree

In the blog post if you read the person complained about it, so said can give a try to Guix. I think both Nix and Guix are good, personally I like Guix being familiar with lisp and scheme feels very natural to work with Guix, with Nix need to learn new declarative syntax. Linux kernel itself is GPL, so not sure what’s the issue with Guix. Obviously Guix package repository only support libre software, but if you need to use proprietary repository try Guix-nonfree[1]. I am happy Guix and GuixSD exist. Check the gnu Guix mailing list archive both have same roots but are sufficiently different[2]. [1] https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg002...

it's easy to add additional channels/repositories, e.g. https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree , https://gitlab.com/divansantana/guix-packages-nonfree , &c.

I applaud the design and ideas in GuixSD, but the lack of support for non-free software is a deal-breaker for me. I wish they'd relax this requirement and added an optional official non-free repository with a limited selection of software. A fork with support for non-free repositories would also be great. So far I've seen individual projects that have done this, but seem abandoned[1] or overwhelming[2] for a Lisp newcomer. [1]: https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree [2]: https://github.com/alezost/guix-config