Notices tagged with guix

Ok, I gotta ask:has anyone gotten OpenCL on AMDGPU working on #Guix ?I need it for some serious Blender stuff.I know it probably involves proprietary crap, which I hate, but I wanna use the hardware I already have.

#Nix language with disjoint data types?https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-10-22-nickel-open-sourcing/

“All in all, the Nix language is a lazy JSON with functions.”

“Indeed, static types can be seen as superflous in a configuration language: if your program is only run once on fixed inputs, any type error will be reported at run-time anyway.”

“While the basic computational blocks are functions, the basic data blocks in Nickel are records”

That was some of the rationale for #Guix. I see Nix/Guix convergence here!

TIL about #GTK’s Broadway:

guix environment --ad-hoc gtk+:bin -- broadwayd :1 gedit & icecat http://localhost:8081

Tadaam: GTK+ app running in the browser! Impressive.

(Though I’m more interested in having fewer “apps” in the browser.)

Hat tip to Danny M. of #Guix.

Linux #games stores/platforms should use #nix and/or #guix to package games instead of their own custom script solutions.

That would allow * specifying custom Wine builds* pinning dependency versions* trivially maintaining and applying patches* creating wrappers and setup scripts* atomic upgrades with rollback* explicit and reproducible dependency resolution* maintaining your own easily shareable repos with custom packages and overrides* a platform/frontend-agnostic packaging solution (no need to use any particular GUI - can just manage your games with Nix/Guix directly)

It would also contribute to the declarative package management revolution.

Just look at this list: https://alternativeto.net/software/lutris/ - wouldn't it be great if those could all use the same packaging format and use/extend a common upstream repo?

Guix is ahead of Nix in this: https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels/games

#linuxgaming #lutris #steam

#ChickenScheme build system patches sent to #Guix:blobuwu:

Intrepid @janneke did it again: #Hurd support in #Guix System!

Currently it’s available through cross-compiled VM images:

guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu --no-grafts \ gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl

Woohoo! \o/

(Yeah currently you need ‘--no-grafts’ due to an obscure bug.)

You can now configure #Guix System to spawn a #GNU/#Hurd VM—a “childhurd”.https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41785

\o/Thanks @janneke !

The #GNU #Guix package graph is now rooted in a further reduced set of binary seeds, at about 60 MiB it weighs 25% of what it used to

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/

How #bootstrappable is your distro?

The first #GNU/Hurd substitutes for #GNU #Guix are available; get ready starting your Childhurd and build hello!

– “BTW isn’t there some kind of ‘getting started’ tutorial for #Guix?”– “Hmm… not realllly?…”

Goes back home wondering how we spent years without it, how new users got by, and out of despair writes it:https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43141

Recovering actual tarballs from content at #SWHeritage with #Disarchive:https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T2430#47485

👍 to Timothy Sample who tackled this while some of us were sunbathing:https://issues.guix.gnu.org/42162#15

Another example of the commitment of the #Guix folks!

Nature reports on the ReScience Ten Years #Reproducibility Challenge:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7

Now, when speaking about #GNU #Guix, you can say: “as seen in Nature.”

#reproducible #research

Does PantherX contribute to #Guix? Are they any patches from them fixing stuff upstream?

Read about the #Guix #ReproducibleResearch hackathon we held last week:https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/07/reproducible-research-hackathon-experience-report/

The activity around the Guix Past channel, which has received a bunch of “new old packages”, shows the real need for practical software archeology in science—far from the bleeding edge that we hackers love. :-)

Who hereabouts was a #Guix fan...?

I’m trying to install tegaki-zinnia-traditional-chinese. For whatever reason it’s not in my regular repo. But it hangs at the build step and just sits there, revving the cpu to half. Should... I waited quite a while, but naught. Any idea how long it might take? I don’t want to leave hims thinking too hard overnight...

Thanks.

“Reproducible builds and deployments — this is the ambition that #nix proclaims for itself. This ambition comes, however, with a fine print: builds are reproducible only if the original source code still exists. Otherwise, Nix can’t download, build and deploy it.”

*coughs* what about blobs in Nixpkgs?

Nix’s usage of #SoftwareHeritage needs to be complemented with Blobs Heritage. #Guix needs only the former.

there's this introductory video with Ludovic Courtes (one of the #Guix mantainers) introducing #jupyter and #guix #python #guile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFyv3qUXHpU

@Nixfreak I'm keen to try, I have an extensive #nixos setup, I'm curious how would #guix compare