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GNU Guix does an awesome job with this. The documentation is one of the main reasons I left NixOS, and then some time later I landed on Guix. I have stuck on th

GNU Guix does an awesome job with this. The documentation is one of the main reasons I left NixOS, and then some time later I landed on Guix. I have stuck on the latter for a few years now.

fransje26 2y ago
Out of personal interest, do you also make use of the non-free parts of Guix? And if so, how well do they work, and how well are they documented compared to the "core" part? The orthodoxy of free software purity is nice, but I unfortunately also need to get CUDA working. I tried Nix a few times, but the documentation was so lacking and/or outdated that I couldn't figure out how to get the setup I needed working, and I had to drop the idea as I couldn't justify the time investment that would be needed to prod around in the dark until everything worked.
- rekado 2y ago
  CUDA is available in the guix-science-nonfree channel. https://hpc.guix.info/channels/non-free/ https://hpc.guix.info/channels/non-free/
- Zambyte 2y ago
  Can't speak to CUDA as all of my systems run AMD or Intel at this point, but I use the nonguix channel for the mainline Linux kernel. I even built a custom iso using the mainline kernel, since my servers NIC requires non-free blobs. The process for doing that was surprisingly easy to me. Between the nonguix README and other resources like systemcrafters, you're in pretty good company as far as the documentation for non-free things to. Edit: less related but I still wanted to mention: Guix makes extensive use of the info[0][1] system for documentation also. There is essentially a textbook worth of information locally on the machine, which is generally what I use instead of turning to the web. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-stnd.html https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-s... [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.htm...
  - fransje26 2y ago
    Thank you for your feedback and the information!

GNU Guix does an awesome job with this. The documentation is one of the main reasons I left NixOS, and then some time later I landed on Guix. I have stuck on the latter for a few years now.

fransje26 2y ago

Out of personal interest, do you also make use of the non-free parts of Guix? And if so, how well do they work, and how well are they documented compared to the "core" part? The orthodoxy of free software purity is nice, but I unfortunately also need to get CUDA working. I tried Nix a few times, but the documentation was so lacking and/or outdated that I couldn't figure out how to get the setup I needed working, and I had to drop the idea as I couldn't justify the time investment that would be needed to prod around in the dark until everything worked.

rekado 2y ago
CUDA is available in the guix-science-nonfree channel. https://hpc.guix.info/channels/non-free/ https://hpc.guix.info/channels/non-free/
Zambyte 2y ago
Can't speak to CUDA as all of my systems run AMD or Intel at this point, but I use the nonguix channel for the mainline Linux kernel. I even built a custom iso using the mainline kernel, since my servers NIC requires non-free blobs. The process for doing that was surprisingly easy to me. Between the nonguix README and other resources like systemcrafters, you're in pretty good company as far as the documentation for non-free things to. Edit: less related but I still wanted to mention: Guix makes extensive use of the info[0][1] system for documentation also. There is essentially a textbook worth of information locally on the machine, which is generally what I use instead of turning to the web. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-stnd.html https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/info-s... [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.htm...
- fransje26 2y ago
  Thank you for your feedback and the information!