Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Everyone, Ludovic Courtès wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0, representing 4,515 commits by 95 people over 5 months. Thank you, all 94 of you wonderful people, and all who commited other things than code. T G-R

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: [...] >> this also means we will _never_ be able to trust communications via >> baseband (2G, 3G... 5G), fortunately this can be fixed using a trusted >> _separated_ SoC and the very good work coming from the vast and smart >> FLOSS community [2] :-) > > ... but we

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > callular (baseband) merits a dedicated chapter, since it seems > practically impossible *forever* to trust that chips... and that chips > are an important attack vector (Purism will use USB bus to separate > baseband from CPU) I

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-06 Thread Alex Vong
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Alex Vong writes: >>> Hello Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: [...] > > Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. > Also, should we make a deprecated-package

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0, representing 4,515 commits by 95 people over 5 months. This is hopefully the last release before 1.0. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution, GuixSD, is an

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> I would like to know if there is any interest in this? I'm interested! janneke

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-06 Thread Kei Kebreau
Alex Vong writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Alex Vong writes: >> >>> Hello Kei, >>> >>> Kei Kebreau writes: >>> >>> [...] Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. Also, should we make a deprecated-package definition for qtoctave? >>> >>> I think

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! sorry for going little bit OT I'm *desperately* looking forward for hardware I can trust, so librem5 is giving me *some* hope, but... Vagrant Cascadian writes: [...] > https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/ > > Apparently they will use wifi/bluetooth/cellular that has

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-12-06, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-12-06, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: >> What about blobs? Any news? (see below) > > Not sure. For their laptops, they use blob-free wireless, at least. > > The chipset proposed for the librem-5 (imx8*) has a GPU that works with > etnaviv and so I

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-12-06, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: > I would like to know if there is any interest in this? I've got my eyes on the librem-5 too... > What processor architecture is it using? aarch64 > What about blobs? Any news? (see below) Not sure. For their laptops, they use blob-free wireless,

'GNU Guix' book (Was: Re: Book idea and Guix items in the FSF(E) shops)

2018-12-06 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-12-06 11:52, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 01:14:49AM -0800, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: >> What about a book "Introduction to Guile Scheme" modeled after the emacs >> lisp one but with Guix in locus instead of emacs? >> >> Thinking further I'm guessing we could use some of

Re: First outreachy day :)

2018-12-06 Thread Laura Lazzati
> I wish you good luck with your project/assignments. Thank you too :) Regards! Laura

Re: First outreachy day :)

2018-12-06 Thread Laura Lazzati
> Welcome. Thanks :) > I think we are from everywhere on earth. It's OK to live in a different > timezone. And most hackers tend to prefer working at night. We don't > have a strict time table like a company. hahaha :) Yes, I was concerned mostly for reaching my mentors/coordinators but they are

Re: qemu command line for installation

2018-12-06 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! I am opening this thread again to mention some few things. I had to add one last line to the qemu command: (First ran : qemu-img create hda.img 50G) qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 1024 \ -nodefaults \ -drive file=hda.img,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0 \ -device

GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread swedebugia
Hi I would like to know if there is any interest in this? What processor architecture is it using? What about blobs? Any news? (see below) Could we pre-order one or two librem phones owned by the foundation to be used to to hack on this? I am looking forward the Here is a note from the

Re: Book idea and Guix items in the FSF(E) shops

2018-12-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 01:14:49AM -0800, swedebu...@riseup.net wrote: > What about a book "Introduction to Guile Scheme" modeled after the emacs > lisp one but with Guix in locus instead of emacs? > > Thinking further I'm guessing we could use some of the newly donated > funds to give

Book idea and Guix items in the FSF(E) shops

2018-12-06 Thread swedebugia
Hi I took a look in the shop https://shop.fsf.org/ and https://fsfe.org/order/order.sv.html. I was wondering if anyone have thought of suggesting Guix/GuixSD items to the people managing the stores? I would definately like to see/buy a mug or a t-shirt with the logo and a sticker for my laptop.

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-12-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
The announcement page is updated to the latest: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2019 Do register if you intend to come to the GNU Guix days. We will limit the audience to 40 persons. For those of you travelling from far away, there are many places you can stay in Brussels.