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by rekado 9y ago
Guix is used as a package manager in HPC environments in order to deploy reproducible software environments. There's a dedicated Guix HPC project: https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/
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by rekado 9y ago
> what technical features does Scheme make possible which are not possible in NixOS Integration of all stages. We use the same language on the build side as on the host side; the same language to execute builds as to define packages. I
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by rekado 9y ago
(In Chinese they are called Hanzi.) It wasn't very hard for me to learn to read and to type with a Pinyin input method by simply writing office email. It's much easier to recognize characters (e.g. by picking them from a Pinyin c
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by rekado 9y ago
My comment was not meant to be a slight against the people behind the service. I just think that it is dangerous to give hardware people an alternative to doing things the right way, namely to allow for their "firware" to be buil
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by rekado 9y ago
Is this a service to encourage the distribution of proprietary software? Firmware ought to be built from source, like any other software that runs on my hardware. I think it is dangerous to give legitimacy to proprietary software just beca
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by rekado 9y ago
I'm now using ivy-mode again. It's much faster and the annoying differences in behaviour (e.g. only "g l" will match "guile" but "gl" will not; double TAB in find-files opens dired; etc) are actually
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by rekado 9y ago
There is a systemic cost: the cumulative effect of encouraging the expectation to find things on Github. It also costs time to maintain an additional remote if you want to interact with potential contributors. Using Github only to say &quo
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by rekado 9y ago
It's a pity that this website is exclusively for repositories on Github and thus contributes to the harmful idea that free software only exists when it is on Github.
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Installing Guix on a cluster(guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr)
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by rekado 9y ago
My only complaint about ido-vertical-mode is that it seems to be very slow for long lists. This is why I'm looking for an alternative. I tried helm and ivy, but both of them behave frustratingly differently compared to ido.
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by rekado 9y ago
Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen is excellent: https://www.masteringemacs.org/
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by rekado 9y ago
I mostly use `M-x shell`. One of the best features (other than the standard features of Emacs buffers) is `C-c C-p` and `C-c C-n` to jump to the previous/next prompt.
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by rekado 9y ago
I do recommend Emacs for when you are not only looking for an editor. A while ago I wrote up why I really enjoy using Emacs: https://elephly.net/posts/2016-02-14-ilovefs-emacs.html
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by rekado 9y ago
> But the problem is probably less big in Guix because only a few graphics drivers are actually supported due to the fact that all the drivers needs to be Free and free of binary blobs. This is a property of Linux libre, not of Guix per
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by rekado 9y ago
If by "derived" you mean that it is another implementation of functional package management, then you are right. But if "derived" implies that Guix is a fork, then you are mistaken. Guix is not a fork of Nix.
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by rekado 9y ago
> If an open-source implementation of the engine doesn't exist, you're always free to write one. This is a very strange interpretation. When a piece of software that is released under a free license has a crucial non-free depen
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by rekado 9y ago
I don't think the distinction is helpful. Guile Scheme is in fact compiled, and the resulting binary is in ELF format. It's still bytecode for the Guile VM, but this does not allow any inference on performance.
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by rekado 9y ago
> Lisp-2, false NIL, full-powered macros — Common Lisp has a lot going for it. Heh, I find none of these things desirable :) I guess some people are just wired differently. I prefer a single namespace for all values, #F as the only fal
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by rekado 9y ago
We have Guix as a system configuration/package manager, the GNU Shepherd as an init, and the GuixSD initrd itself, all of which are written in Guile Scheme. With the GNU Hurd important parts of the OS could be written in Scheme as well
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The Meme Hustler (2013)(thebaffler.com)
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by rekado 9y ago
It's a bit ironic to recognize him for his impact on the "open source world". "Open source" is a term that was introduced as a means to divorce the social implications of free software from the boring bits. Here&#x
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by rekado 9y ago
What's not to like about the GNU C library? It's used on the vast majority of GNU+Linux distributions. > Lots of other old, weird, and/or semi-abandoned projects too like Taler, ... GNU Taler is none of these things. >
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by rekado 9y ago
Fine grain virtualisation is pretty hackish in Linux, but it's part of the design of the Hurd. On the Hurd you can trivially virtualise the filesystem (on Linux you need FUSE for that but it doesn't go far enough), there are user
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by rekado 9y ago
> They could advertise it as: 'Pay online, without Paypal!' and a big 'Sign Up' button, and it would do more for me than anything their current page does. Taler requires banks to cooperate, so "signing up" d
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by rekado 9y ago
> Nix and Guix are superior in concept, but they don't seem production-ready. FWIW I have been using Guix and GuixSD in production since 2014. I use Guix with a cluster of several hundred nodes and on countless workstations.
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by rekado 9y ago
> "Guix...uses the Nix daemon" and "to extend the reach of Scheme to the daemon" are incompatible and I hope you see why. These are not incompatible statements. Guix uses an older version of the Nix daemon that has d
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by rekado 9y ago
Gexps are not a build system implementation. They are a means to generate code. Guix continues to use whatever build system a package requires, such as the GNU build system, the CMake build system, the R build system, the Python build syst
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by rekado 9y ago
Guix does not overcomplicate things. For example, it uses derivations exactly like those of Nix. (That's the extent to which Guix "takes heavy inspiration from" Nix: it uses the Nix daemon and thus the same derivation forma
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by rekado 9y ago
You wrote: > I'm aware of Guix, but that's probably an extreme example, most people probably aren't willing to sandbox literally their entire OS install, plus it's entirely unreasonable to require a particular OS in o
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by rekado 9y ago
"guaranteed GPL-compatible" This is a common misunderstanding. There's much more free software out there than software under the GPL. "Only providing free software" does not mean "only providing software unde

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