Re: Question about Guix documentation
yes, I knew about the I/O operations stuff, I turned my fancy retroPC on just to check, it is not a laptop, it is a desktop PC. It is has a monocore Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, and a Parallel ATA hard drive. Please. do not say it is fancy anymore, I have just written a post for my blog about it being fancy :) Regards! Laura
Re: Question about Guix documentation
On 2018-12-03 00:39, Laura Lazzati wrote: 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :) I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind). Oh no! my retroPC is fancy :O and I did not know :) I was going to add that I did almost up to 4th year of university with it but felt ashamed. I guess you know where the name MATE comes from ;), it is at the end of the site. I will check the processor. because I don't remember how many cores it has. Actually what makes a bigger difference than CPU speed/number of cores is the hdd/ssd speed. Because of the heavy store/hardlinking/profile generation hooks etc. Guix is quite disk I/O intensive. So installing ssd in your old laptop would probably speed things up. They are cheep these days and you can get away with buying a small one for little money 32Gb is enough if you trim generations and run guix gc regularly). -- Cheers Swedebugia
Re: Question about Guix documentation
> 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :) > I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with > Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other > programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind). Oh no! my retroPC is fancy :O and I did not know :) I was going to add that I did almost up to 4th year of university with it but felt ashamed. I guess you know where the name MATE comes from ;), it is at the end of the site. I will check the processor. because I don't remember how many cores it has. And send the patch, of course. Regards :)
Re: Question about Guix documentation
On 2018-12-02 16:05, Laura Lazzati wrote: Hi! On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-) It's not its birthday yet, but thank you ;) I just did a basic installation, since it only has 1GB of RAM memory. But I love it and criticizing my retroPC is one of the things people should never do hahahaha. 1GB of RAM? That is a *lot* :) I have 2 GB on my 2 day-to-day laptops. 1 with GNOME3 GuixSD and 1 with Parabola+MATE. Both work fine and I rarely have to wait for other programs than the really heavy ones (Libreoffice comes to mind). I choose light programs: mpv, mpsyt, generally console programs over gui if possible and suitable. A friend of mine have a 4-core Samsung with 8 GB RAM and GNOME3 and I feel no big difference compared to my laptop (besides when compiling of course) If you configure a good size swapfile or partition you will probably have no trouble running X11 and a light desktop manager (i.e. anything besides GNOME3). (I admit I did not actually check GNOME3 on a 1 GB RAM PC). I would say it is possible to configure a desktop system to run smoothly with anything above 512MB RAM and 1-2 Ghz 1 core processor. (in 2003 I started out with GNU/Linux on a 350Mhz with 512MB RAM with no problems besides playing DVDs which caused glitches during playback because the processor could not keep up) -- Cheers Swedebugia
Re: Question about Guix documentation
Hi! On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-) It's not its birthday yet, but thank you ;) I just did a basic installation, since it only has 1GB of RAM memory. But I love it and criticizing my retroPC is one of the things people should never do hahahaha. > yes please, fix that template Thank you for the advice. And I know that if the patch is not OK, then I can fix it if it is wrong, Even if I test it before sending it. Regards :) Laura
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Hi Laura, Laura Lazzati writes: [...] > Yesterday I mentioned that I installed GuixSD on bare metal over IRC > channel, in my retroPC that in December this year will be 13 years old > :) happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-) [...] > The example for desktop.scm has the line: > (device "my-root") instead of (device (file-system-label "my-root")) > I also don't know if that is a mistake or if it is on purpose because > of being newbie :) good work: it's a mistake as documented here https://guix.info/manual/en/File-Systems.html#File-Systems the file to fix is this: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl because it is included in the documentation here: (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi#n9863) --8<---cut here---start->8--- @lisp @include os-config-desktop.texi @end lisp --8<---cut here---end--->8--- built via make as defined here (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/local.mk#n107) --8<---cut here---start->8--- %D%/os-config-%.texi: gnu/system/examples/%.tmpl $(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) "`dirname $@`"; \ cp "$<" "$@" --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > I wanted to ask you before doing anything because I'd rather read > other stuff, but if it is OK, then they are two lines, I can change > them and patch them. yes please, fix that template thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Question about Guix documentation
Hi everyone :) I have some questions as regards documentation: Yesterday I mentioned that I installed GuixSD on bare metal over IRC channel, in my retroPC that in December this year will be 13 years old :) I did a basic installation, almost followed the first example in: https://guix.info/manual/en/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#Using-the-Configuration-System, since it is old and it cannot support a GUI, for a example. I would like to read some other stuff this weekend, but there were some parts of the documentation that were confusing for me or in which I made mistakes because instead of being example texinfo commands they were code. I don't know if that is on purpose. The example for desktop.scm has the line: (device "my-root") instead of (device (file-system-label "my-root")) I also don't know if that is a mistake or if it is on purpose because of being newbie :) I wanted to ask you before doing anything because I'd rather read other stuff, but if it is OK, then they are two lines, I can change them and patch them. Regards :) Laura
