Guix Packaging Meetup - This Saturday from 14:00 EST (18:00 PM UTC)

Hi Guixers! I'd like to invite you to a guix packaging meetup this Saturday, May 29 at 14:00 EST (18:00 PM UTC). We usually talk over at mumble.libremiami.org while pair programming with tmate on a Guix System VPS. Here's a mobilizon page with more info on the event: https://events.nixnet.s

Re: Rust freedom issue claim

On Thu, 27 May 2021, Joshua Branson wrote: In terms of languages trying to be replacements for C: - Zig is one of the most famous ones, and will probably be the first C alternatives to reach 1.0. https://ziglang.org/ - Odin https://odin-lang.org/ - scopes which using S-expressions https://

Re: Which kernel series to use in the installer and for installed systems?

Hi, Vagrant Cascadian writes: > Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and > the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using > the same kernel for the installation? Sounds good to me. More specifically, I would suggest offering the user a choi

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 1:46 PM, wrote: > Just a heads up that due to this thread, I've been able to run the website > locally too, that was one of my first realworld usage of guix, I'm slow on > this journey, but I've started it :) Great :) > Regarding the website itself, I wanted to adj

Re: Which kernel series to use in the installer and for installed systems?

On 2021-05-27, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and >> the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using >> the same kernel for the installation? > > I

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Getting rid of input labels?

Ludovic Courtès schreef op wo 26-05-2021 om 15:43 [+0200]: > Hi Maxime, >[...] > In many cases, you don’t need the ability to refer to a specific input; > you just need all the inputs to contribute to search path environment > variables, and that’s enough. A “label collision” does not matter at >

Re: Which kernel series to use in the installer and for installed systems?

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:10:21AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Would it be too complicated to include both the latest LTS kernel and > the most recently packaged kernel in the installer, and default to using > the same kernel for the installation? I'm a bit confused about what you are sugges

Re: Which kernel series to use in the installer and for installed systems?

On 2021-05-27, Leo Famulari wrote: > I'm not sure exactly how the situation could be improved. Maybe the > installer and the operating-system declarations that it generates could > instead use one of the "longterm" [1] kernel series? > > I'm not totally comfortable steering users to these longterm

Which kernel series to use in the installer and for installed systems?

At the time of the recent 1.3.0 Guix release, the "default" linux-libre kernel series was the 5.11 series [0]: -- (define-public linux-libre-version linux-libre-5.11-version) (define-public linux-libre-pristine-source linux-libre-5.11-pristine-source) (define-public linux-libre-source

Re: Rust freedom issue claim

Scopes sure looks cool! Pj.

Re: Rust freedom issue claim

Pjotr Prins writes: > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 04:32:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> That’s a somewhat different topic. FWIW, I’m both excited at the idea >> of having a memory-safe replacement for C gaining momentum, and >> frightened by the prospects of Rust being this replacement, for ma

Re: Freenode Administration

Bone Baboon writes: > # IRC alternatives / compliments > > Some criteria that I have come up with are: > * Free software > * Can be used without a graphical user interface as many GPUs are not > compatible with Linux-libre and can not run Xorg or Wayland window > managers / desktops. > * Peer t

RE: guix and mirroring dataset

Hi, On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 04:37, "Cook, Malcolm" wrote: >>Your input is welcome. :-) > > I was expecting to find workflows that have been developed for > mirroring (downloading) genomic resources from sites such as > Ensembl/NCBI/UCSC, etc, and then creating on-prem derived resources > (e.g. bl

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

Just a heads up that due to this thread, I've been able to run the website locally too, that was one of my first realworld usage of guix, I'm slow on this journey, but I've started it :) Regarding the website itself, I wanted to adjust the package page, so that it has a direct link to the packa

Re: Freenode Administration

Bone Baboon writes: > Here is what I have discovered after some further preliminary > exploration. I have added XMPP and Tox. This is supplemental information in regards to raingloom's comment on implementation languages. > ## Scuttlebutt > > > > * Free libre - yes > *

Re: Freenode Administration

Bone Baboon writes: > ## Matrix This is supplemental information in regards to raingloom's comment on implementation languages. > > > > * Free libre - yes > * Peer to peer - no yet, currently federated servers > ** >

Re: Rust freedom issue claim

Bone Baboon writes: > This is an article from Hyperbola about the Rust trademark. It claims > that Rust has a freedom issue. > > > I searched for this in the Guix bug and devel mailing list archive but > did not see it. > > I wo

Re: Freenode Administration

raingloom writes: > I don't think we can package NPM stuff. > > Both the Dat and SSB cores have non-JavaScript implementations AFAIK, > but Cabal itself is JavaScript-only and so are all the SSB clients that > I've seen, but admittedly I haven't looked at the state of the SSB > ecosystem in a few m