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Is GNU Guix a minimal distribution, and what might that even mean?

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 Baines, Christopher

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Is GNU Guix a minimal distribution, and what might that even mean?
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Minimalism is a useful perspective in software projects, and this talk will explore how minimalism and the related concepts of scope, convergence and efficiency seem to apply to distributions. My current focus is GNU Guix, but in this talk I'll compare and contrast with other distributions as well.