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Conda Ecosystem Explained

· 6 min read
Dasha Gurova
Open Source Community Manager
Jannis Leidel
Steering council member

Get to know the conda ecosystem—a vibrant community supporting an open-source, language-agnostic, and multi-platform package management system. Discover conda CLI tools for managing packages and environments, and explore key repositories like conda-forge, bioconda and defaults. You will learn how to get started with conda tools, the important things to keep in mind, and how multistakeholder governance ensures the ecosystem remains reliable and accessible to all.

Developer Guide: A Tale of Five Prefixes

· 4 min read
Ken Odegard
Conda Maintainer
OpenAI ChatGPT
Large Language Model 🤖

In the realm of package management and environment configuration, conda has emerged as a versatile tool empowering developers with environment management. A pivotal aspect of conda's architecture lies in its prefix system, which underwent a significant evolution over its previous versions, transforming conda from a simple package manager into a sprawling environment manager. In this technical discourse, we delve into the intricacies of conda's prefix system, shedding light on its evolution and the five distinct prefixes delineated within the conda source code.

Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn

· One min read
Dave Clements
Open Source Community Manager

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values.

Going forward, you can find us at

If you are on either platform then please follow and link to those accounts, or, just use the #conda hashtag.

We won't close the Twitter account. We will update it to say it is no longer active, and point users to the conda communities on Mastodon and LinkedIn. If you are active on Twitter, we encourage you to also use the #conda hashtag.

We hope to see you on Mastodon and LinkedIn in 2024!

PS: conda-forge is discussing making the same move.

Conda 23.10.0: libmamba is now the default solver

· 3 min read
Jaime Rodríguez-Guerra
Steering council member
Jannis Leidel
Steering council member

With this 23.10.0 release we are changing the default solver of conda to conda-libmamba-solver! 🥳 🚀

libmamba builds on libsolv, a much faster solver from openSUSE. The previous "classic" solver is based on pycosat/Picosat and will remain part of conda for the foreseeable future. A fallback is possible and available.