Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > Guix Day was wonderful. Thank you very much for organizing it! More than > anything, I attended just to see people's faces, and put faces to > names. Seeing smiling faces is surprisingly motivating, especially in > lockdown times

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:42:02PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > Since people reported everyone turning their cameras on significantly > degrading performance, that is unlikely to be an accurate analogy. > My guess is that it's more similar to watching N simultaneous streams, > where N is the number of

Re: Why is BigBlueButton slow on GuixSystem (was: Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!)

2020-11-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:32:07PM +0100, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > In video conferencing clients need to do video encoding (when they use > their webcam) as well as video decoding in real time. This can be pretty > resource hungry (CPU) especially when there is no proper HW acceleration > by th

Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!

2020-11-26 Thread raingloom
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:17:57 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:31:53PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > > Oh yea, regarding that, I really think it would have made a whole > > lot more sense if people just sent in a photo, instead of DDoS-ing > > the network. > > I don't know how

Re: Xen hypervisor

2020-11-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Janneke, > > with our (gnu bootloader grub) already supporting multiboot, it would be easy > for us to add official support for the Xen hypervisor & Linux. > > I've already packaged xen and it's ready to be used. > > In order to boot Xen, the grub config should rea

Xen hypervisor

2020-11-26 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Janneke, with our (gnu bootloader grub) already supporting multiboot, it would be easy for us to add official support for the Xen hypervisor & Linux. I've already packaged xen and it's ready to be used. In order to boot Xen, the grub config should read something like this: menuentry 'Guix wi

Why is BigBlueButton slow on GuixSystem (was: Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!)

2020-11-26 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 25.11.20 19:24, Leo Famulari wrote> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote>> Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled,>> except "Surfingkeys". Computer is something like this (neofetch):> > [...]> > Hm... it seems unlikely that this comp

Re: Building the web site is slow

2020-11-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:46:08PM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > It is funny, when I try to profile via > > cd ~/src/guix-artwork/website > guix install -p haunt-profile guile-syntax-highlight guile-commonmark haunt > LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 \ > GUILE_LOAD_PATH=haunt-profile/share/guile/si

[sr #110376] Creating an Emacs-Guix Git repository for Guix

2020-11-26 Thread Ineiev
Update of sr #110376 (project administration): Status:None => Need Info Assigned to:None => ineiev ___ Follow-up Comment #1: What should

Re: npm global prefix needs to be a writeable directory

2020-11-26 Thread Jelle Licht
Ryan Prior writes: > On November 26, 2020, Jelle Licht wrote: >> On other distros it defaults to a location that is not writable by >> normal users either; > > Indeed I can confirm that Ubuntu node also has this problem. > >> Another way folks solved this problem has been using "nvm" which in >>