Here's an update :)
>> Installer:
>> - Currently, the installer invokes the parted executable for partitioning
>> which is quite jarring (it looks very different). It would be nice if it
>> just used the parted library.
>>But there's no good guile-parted yet. I've started hacking on one and i
Danny Milosavljevic writes:
> Wait. AFAIK one cannot delete system generations [yet]. Has that changed?
>
> But deleting user [package] generations works, yes.
Somewhere on the mailing-list I found out that you can delete a system
generation like this:
$ rm /var/guix/profiles/system-N-li
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:22:46AM -0400, cinde...@hushmail.com wrote:
> telling Portage (the package manager) to meet the specs. Then I
> remembered using NixOS a while back, which had exactly solved that
> problem! And when I heard of a Nix-based, libre system using Scheme,
> I knew I was home.
Hi Leo,
On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:01:45 -0400
Leo Famulari wrote:
> This seems very high to me. I had >100 system generations over 6 months
> with less than 100 GB, although that was not a graphical system.
I have a graphical system with fluxbox, some electrical engineering & FPGA
programs, D, R
cinde...@hushmail.com writes:
[...]
> I'm a big fan of Alan Kay, and one thing he always made clear is that
> there should be no separation between the language and the operating
> system. I've found that many of the problems which plague modern OSes
> are the same which plague C. Which is why a sy
cinde...@hushmail.com writes:
> I'm a mathematician, which means I'm lazy and want to do things the
> right way once so I don't have to do them again. The way that modern
> operating systems work, with their one huge environment and no
> tracking of state, is insane and unsustainable. (How many ti
On 6/28/2017 at 9:49 AM, "Danny Milosavljevic" wrote:
>
>Hi and welcome,
Thanks for for the excellent post. It looks like there's a good community here.
>If there are bugs on system update, you can roll back by selecting
>another entry in the bootloader menu (a new one is created
>everytime
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 my
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 gen
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 da
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 occass
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
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