Notices tagged with guix

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

Anyone run #guix Linux ? I have been reading about , especially the package manager. Is it more functional than #portage? Can you use #zfs as the root file system?

@Nixfreak yeah, I like it :) nixos is a very active project, a lot of software is present.

The downsides - if the software is not packaged for nixos you can't just fetch a binary and run it, you need to package it- nix - the programming language used in configs is hard to learn- docs are not the best, most people just steal each other's configs

I've heard #guix the language is easier to learn, as it's basically lisp but also that it's not as active/big projects as #nixos, but haven't had any personal experience with it yet.

Does anyone know how to get the 32 bit version of a library in #Guix? I want to compile an app that requires the 32 bit version of glibc 💻🤔

getting the feeling that moving to #Hurd and #Guix will be the way to avoid all sorts of corruption and corporate meddling in Linux

I realized #guix doesn't have 'at' and it'd be fun/interesting to implement it in #guile. Is there any way to get a copy of the POSIX specification or if I refuse to pay for standards documents am I stuck implementing it by reading man pages?

I need again to speak about #guile #guix, #gnu and #fsf.

The so called #GnuSocialContract is misleading.

Go read the document: https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract

First thing, 80% of the document (dubbed "contract" for some reason) is old stuff.

Re 4 freedoms: those do not reflect the world socioeconomic needs. In particular, giving the freedom to ANYONE to run the program, for ANY PURPOSE: is socially counter-productive. Economically speaking, it would help the world strive if / when more #diversity happens, more exchange and curation of ideas (that was dubbed noise by a gnu maintainer), instead of giving more power to the powerful. **The gnu license, give more power to the powerful.**

Re second paragraph about a consistent system: that is full garbage. I guess, it is in the document, to rule out "inconsistent". Who decide what is consistent? #rms?! It is more food for establishment trolls.

Re 3rd paragraph: collaborate with the broader free software community: there is two idea "collaborate" instead of "cooperate". I leave the exercise to the reader to read what historically "collaboration" means at least in #Europe. Second idea: "free software", that continues to hijack the definition of "free" and "freedom" to what gnu/fsf/lawyers decide is free (but not gratis #meme).

The last paragraph, is somewhat something like the pseudo-kind community guidelines. Here is it in full:

> The GNU Project welcomes contributions from all and everyone>> The GNU Project **commits to providing a harassment-free** experience for all contributors. It wants to give everyone the opportunity of contributing to **its efforts** on any of the many tasks that require work. It welcomes all contributors, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, level of experience, or any other personal characteristics.

GNU wants to trick you into thinking that it is "kind", giving the definition of kindness.

Hey #Guixters ! My third article on learning how to package software for #Guix has been translated.

Happy hacking with #Guix and #Guile

https://write.as/jeko/how-to-package-software-for-guix-3

Good progress installing #GNU #Guix on the #pinebook pro -- https://joyofsource.com/guix-system-on-the-pinebook-pro.html

so now that i have two machines running #Guix in the same room, I really want to set up a way to share their stores and to offload builds.hopefully i'll hack on that once i'm done with this gosh darn static F2FS package.

ykno... one could make a diskmag as a guix channel.

.... #guix update news could be delivered through one.

(yes i know about `guix pull --news` but can that do music? no. no it can't.)

there seriously needs to be a Linux distro that tries to mimic Plan 9.

could be a good project for some #Guix hackers. it could tie in very well with environments.

Epic ! 🤩 🎇 💪

#gnu #hurd #guix #freesoftware #foss #microkernel #kernel #linux #hacker

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-linux-kernel/