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Since I'm sure everyone is thinking, "but don't we already have Docker for everything?", I'll point out that this was addressed on one of Dave's mailing list posts, in case you're looking for a comparison!

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00916.html

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From the mailing list:

> 1) The container tools I'm working on are completely declarative.

> 2) There are no disk images.

> 3) Software and other files shared amongst many containers are deduplicated system-wide.

> Once again the fundamental building block of every Guix tool, the immutable store, proves to be an invaluable asset in overcoming the problems of our imperative predecessors and contemporaries.

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