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by mbakke 6y ago
> For example Nix can and is being used for Real Work by well known companies Real Companies are using Guix for Real Work too. Perhaps Guix is "fringe" by some definitions, but you made it sound like some barely-usable hobby
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libldap considered harmful(lists.openldap.org)
3 points by mbakke 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbakke 6y ago
I thought it was referring to the "Olson" time zone database, used by virtually any operating system except Windows to keep track of time zone changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080437 Voluntarily main
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Lawsuit Alleges NGINX Conspiracy(heathermeeker.com)
2 points by mbakke 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbakke 6y ago
As someone doing lots of merges in a big and active project, git rerere has saved me hours whenever I need to redo a complicated merge. It's not at all new according to a quick grep of RelNotes, but I only recently discovered it, so
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by mbakke 6y ago
I've been a long-time user of a Google virtualization toolkit that was developed in the open. It is full of such design docs: http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti/master/html/#implemented-desig... As an end us
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by mbakke 6y ago
The Ganeti virtualization toolkit which was developed internally at Google and released as free software is full of such design docs. I always enjoyed reading those as an external Ganeti user: http://docs.ganeti.org/ganeti&
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by mbakke 6y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Metal Gear Solid in this thread (although I really enjoy all the indie suggestions). Each MGS game is essentially an epic interactive movie[^], with individual cutscenes lasting up to an hour. Granted
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by mbakke 6y ago
There is also GNU Mes, which is able to build a GCC toolchain starting from nothing but a Scheme interpreter: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ Practical implementation notes can be found on the Guix blog: https:
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by mbakke 6y ago
The answer is "all of the above". Guix is largely community-driven, but receives donations[0] as well as sponsored work like the NLnet grant mentioned in the article. In addition some research institutions employ Guix developers
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Ask HN: How do you generate customer reports?
1 points by mbakke 6y ago|0 comments
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by mbakke 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question. ungoogled-chromium is "a minimal patchset that's rebased against Chromium upstream, here's instructions to checkout Chromium and rebase our patchset onto it". https:/
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by mbakke 6y ago
There are packages available for popular GNU/Linux distributions based on the openSUSE build service, which are not uploaded by random people. If your distro is unsupported, you can install Nix or Guix and use that to install ungoogled
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by mbakke 7y ago
For #4, Guix integrates with the Software Heritage archive[0] and will look there if the upstream server is unavailable. The CI servers also act like content-addressed mirrors, so in practice you won't notice when the upstream disappea
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by mbakke 7y ago
Guix has `guix import pypi PACKAGE`, which spits out a complete definition that you can pop into a file or the main Guix repository. 'guix import' also takes a --recursive argument, which makes it recursively consider any dependen
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GNU Shepherd 0.5.0 released(lists.gnu.org)
148 points by mbakke 8y ago|60 comments
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by mbakke 9y ago
I'm typing this from a ThinkPad T420, but was expecting the x200 or (actually) the Titanium Macbook Pro 12" ("TiBook"). Give me a modern-day laptop with 4:3 aspect ratio or even 1:1 and a matte screen and I'll be yo
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by mbakke 10y ago
I agree that the endless Nix vs Guix discussions are getting tiring. As a contributor to both, I'll try to explain why Guix won't make Nix obsolete any time soon: Guix is an official GNU project, meaning they won't ever suppo
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by mbakke 10y ago
Depends on your needs. Stability, reliability: ext4/XFS CoW, snapshots, multi-drive FS: ZFS/btrfs SSD speed, longevity: F2FS
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by mbakke 10y ago
I don't understand how Guardian were unable to obtain a license to use Signal/Axolotl in Chatsecure. The libraries on Github are GPL3, is there some missing IP I'm not aware of? Also it saddens me that LibreSignal is effectiv