Notices tagged with guix

@jex

> So my little Gentoo adventure has been completed. … Im thinking about doing Arch now as a lightweight tiling os over Gentoo.

If you're considering other options, I've been really enjoying #void for the past few weeks. I'd also like to check out #guix some time (and still want to try #gentoo sometime. And maybe even #LFS one day…)

@armink @profoundlynerdy

> install gentoo

I've thought about it! This computer is a relatively under-powered laptop that I mainly use to SSH in to my old computer (it has hardware issues but still works via SSH; long story). So #gentoo might not be the best fit.

But my (eventual) plan is to build a desktop to SSH into, and I'm leaning toward Gentoo or #guix for that machine

Ok, just went through a bit of a right of passage I'd somehow doged until now: my WM hard crashed durring an #arch update, leaving me with an unbootable kernel.

A few hours (and a few boots to a live USB) later, and I'm back in and have restored the damage with no data lost. But it's (another!) wake up call that I need to be better about backing things up (and maybe find a WM that doesn't crash…)

And yes, #guix folks, I know this wouldn't have been an issue with your distro :D

I'm reading through the #guix manual, and just realized something (I think):

The way Guix sets up `substitutes` means that I could compile everything from source on my powerful desktop* and then set that as a substitute for my laptop—which would then pull down the binary packages from there.

(*NOTE: I don't have a powerful desktop, but I have hopes/plans to get one)

This seems like it's pretty close to the advantages of #gentoo without (as much of) the pain!

Have any of y'all tried out #guix or #guixSD? (Or have thoughts about it)

I hear they're getting pretty close to a 1.0 release

For those wishing to apply to the "Guix Deploy" Google Summer of Code project I'm mentoring, you have two weeks to apply! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2019#Guix_Deploy https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

More has been recently pushed to the wip-deploy2 branch. If you want to talk to me about your ideas, reach out to me as dustyweb in #guix on irc.freenode.net!

Livestreaming again! Pondering #creativecommons music for livestreaming, and working out how to give it the right credit automatically. Also, #guile and #guix ! https://twitch.tv/codetherapy !

Going to go streaming again, under the light of a blood wolf GNU moon.

I'll be on https://twitch.tv/codetherapy shortly, setting up new Neovim and Zsh dotfiles, pondering#Lisp, #Guix , #article13 and doing a class analysis of #hashtags You can also join the Discord at https://discord.gg/qqtFqKc . I should hopefully be able to hear the audio chat on that.

@jboy It worked out quite well for me. It should work out even better with the new "guix pull" :)

As we're discussing on freenode's #guix channel right now, it would be even better for Debian users if we got a Guix package package available so Debian folks could just apt-get install guix

@dvn @catonano
> partially complete would imply I would have solved the step where rust is crushing the build.. only requires a puzzle solving, that's
+all
> found it, will update it and adjust and then give you the url
> wouldn't share it in #guix on freenode, but mastodon should be good
> https://git.infotropique.org/infotropique/ports-wip/tree/ports/www-client/torbrowser/torbrowser.scm
> checkout: `git clone https://git.infotropique.org/git/ports-wip`
> please mention that there's an emphasis on WIP here. the status of the entire repo implies that

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my talk about gnu #guix from #libreplanet 2018 is now available to watch on-demand.

if you're interested, go here:

https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/practical-verifiable-software-freedom-with-guixsd/

and the slides can be found here:

https://git.dthompson.us/presentations.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/2018-03-25-guix-libreplanet/guix-libreplanet.pdf

enjoy!

at 3:25 Eastern time (about 2 hours from now) I will be talking about GNU #guix at #libreplanet in room 101.

to view the livestream, check out https://libreplanet.org/2018/live/ and click "room 101"

Among many other productive things in the last days, I will:

- mentor someone who'll build a Docker #Guix package (Docker itself from source, not an image)
- finish Buildbot for Guix and #GuixSD
- Give the gnunet shepherd service another try and work on it with other GNUnet hackers in one location later in 2018.

More to be posted in a blog post

@kkebreau #Debian has 25034 in stable, by external statistic tool counting. Of those 25034, 9066 (so 44.9%) are supposedly up to date.

In #Guix we have:
Number of packages: 6780
Number of outputs: 7074
(which might or might not take my own repositories in counting), external stats say 5971. Of those 5971 3025 are supposedly up to date, so 61.2%.