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Guix seems nice in that it is all-free and is configurable in Scheme, but packages for quite common stuff like Java and Haskell and Jack-audio server are not present yet, although they are in NixOS. Looking forward to Guix 1.0 as I like Scheme and GNU :-)

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I've been using NixOS and Nix to install things in my servers. It's very mature. Most things I need are packaged, including not so popular utilities like isync or notmuch.

However, I'm curious about containers. For example systemd-nspawn seems like a simple way to achieve many of the functionality NixOS brings into the table.

Note that you can use Nix packages in Guix. They are compatible.

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