GNU Guix, The Computing Freedom Deployment Tool

Guix is GNU's package manager and distribution. It seeks to empower users in several ways: by being a dependable system foundation, by providing the tools to formally correlate a binary package and the "recipes" and source code that led to it—furthering the spirit of the GNU GPL—, by allowing users to customize the distribution, and by lowering the barrier to entry in distribution development. This talk will reflect on a year of development, show how far we've come toward this mission, and flaunt cool features in a demo. We will discuss challenges ahead in building a stand-alone GNU system, as well as opportunities for the larger GNU community.