Re: FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

Leo Famulari writes: [...] > But, the "Stack Clash" issues took us by surprise and we spent a few > days writing and testing our fixes. We are committed to supporting > 32-bit platforms where these bugs are apparently easy to exploit. > Without access to the exploits or

GSoC project update 1

Hello everyone. It's already almost July! Which means I've been working on replacing the build daemon for about a month now. So it seems like a good time for an update. So far, I've replaced the register-path procedure in store.scm, which means we now have some support for using sqlite (via

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

"Feng Shu" writes: > Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow, > I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ? Maybe you can try building from git instead? I used to run '$ guix pull && guix package --upgrade', but it gets slower as the number of packages of

bootstrap-tarballs fails

Hello, Currently compiling './pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu bootstrap-tarballs' on core-updates fails with: -- phase `set-paths' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `install-locale' warning: failed to install 'en_US.utf8' locale: Invalid argument phase `install-locale'

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 06:58:28AM +0800, Feng Shu wrote: > > Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow, > I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ? Wow, that's really slow :( I don't know of any easy way to speed it up. Maybe you could build Guix on a faster computer and

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

I'm also trying to understand the cause of this. I still don't have enough time to begin investigating it or to suggest improvements, but I notice that it gets worse and with *more* resource usage if you pass the `--cores`/`-c` option with any value to `guix pull`. Without this option the

compiling guix is too slow?

Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow, I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ? --

Re: FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

Leo Famulari transcribed 14K bytes: > It was hinted at ~1 week ago in the public "Stack Clash" discussion on > oss-security, but now there has been an announcement: the private > linux-distros early-notice security discussion and coordination mailing > list is accepting new members: > >

FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

It was hinted at ~1 week ago in the public "Stack Clash" discussion on oss-security, but now there has been an announcement: the private linux-distros early-notice security discussion and coordination mailing list is accepting new members: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/638 The criteria are

Re: Xorg tearing fix on Intel HD Graphics 4000

Andy Wingo writes: > On Tue 27 Jun 2017 19:43, Mark H Weaver writes: > >> In the meantime, how would you feel about pushing the following commit >> to master? It would still allow the use of SNA by explicitly asking for >> it in xorg.conf, but

Re: Looking to contribute

cinde...@hushmail.com writes: > Hello. I recently learned about GuixSD, and it seems like a distro > I would actually _enjoy_ using. Essentially, my questions are: > > What is the current state of GuixSD? Is it currently too buggy or > feature-deficient to use as a day-to-day os? > I use it on

Re: Looking to contribute

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 03:49:43PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Note that a normal GuixSD system takes at least 80 GB of disk space > (it will suck), better 160 GB (that will work very nicely). That > mostly because of the rollback feature. This seems very high to me. I had >100 system

Re: Looking to contribute

Hi Cinder, Welcome to Guix! cinde...@hushmail.com writes: > Hello. I recently learned about GuixSD, and it seems like a distro > I would actually _enjoy_ using. Essentially, my questions are: > > What is the current state of GuixSD? Is it currently too buggy or > feature-deficient to use as a

Re: Looking to contribute

Hi and welcome, On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:16:08 -0400 cinde...@hushmail.com wrote: > What is the current state of GuixSD? Is it currently too buggy or > feature-deficient to use as a day-to-day os? I'm using it every day, also for professional programming. It's quite okay to use. There are

Looking to contribute

Hello. I recently learned about GuixSD, and it seems like a distro I would actually _enjoy_ using. Essentially, my questions are: What is the current state of GuixSD? Is it currently too buggy or feature-deficient to use as a day-to-day os? How can I best contribute? -Andrew

Re: Xorg tearing fix on Intel HD Graphics 4000

On Tue 27 Jun 2017 19:43, Mark H Weaver writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Wed 21 Jun 2017 09:55, Roel Janssen writes: >> >>> For a long time now, I have a tearing issue on GuixSD (parts of the >>> screen do not get updated while others do,