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by rekado 5y ago
> My personal reasons for not going with Guix is that it is a GNU project That's a high price to pay. Look, the GNU project means different things to different people. On of the goals of the GNU project is to give users the tools to
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by rekado 5y ago
I still have a Kobo Touch and my experience was very different. The screen cracked and I replaced it. It wasn't glued on. The battery is now pretty much dead, but it's connected with a standard connector and not soldered. Here&
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Tuning packages for a CPU micro-architecture(hpc.guix.info)
2 points by rekado 5y ago|2 comments
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by rekado 5y ago
No, they are very different. Not unexpectedly, because Guix is not a fork of Nix. They start to look similar at the level of compiled derivations, but even the builder scripts are different: in Guix they are compiled Guile scripts wher
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by rekado 5y ago
I don't know what people consider "eager" in Guix. In the `package` DSL all input fields are thunked, so they are not eagerly resolved. You don't need all values of your language to have lazy semantics --- delaying eva
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by rekado 5y ago
I have been using Guix-generated reproducible Docker images for years. I'll never go back to using Docker directly. Could you please elaborate what you mean by "runc-compatability layer"? And what about the docs requires cl
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by rekado 5y ago
This gets repeated a lot, but Guix really is not a fork of Nix. Not by any definition of "fork". Also not "a fork of sorts". The term "fork" only applies to one executable: "guix-daemon", which is
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by rekado 5y ago
It's called "Guix System" :) If you have hardware that requires non-free firmware you can use the "linux" package from the nonguix channel: https://github.com/nonguix/nonguix/
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by rekado 5y ago
Guix makes it very easy to add whatever non-free software you want via channels. You just won't get it with the default installation.
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by rekado 5y ago
Guix has lots of packages in the default channel, and you can add any odd git repo as another channel providing extra software. There are quite a few popular channels, such as non-guix (with things like vanilla Linux), guix-science, guix-pa
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by rekado 5y ago
> I'm sure I read somewhere a majority of doctors who get cancer don't accept chemo/etc.. But I have no links to back that up. Perhaps you mean this one: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11&#x2F
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by rekado 5y ago
> You do realize that this is just your privilege? Yes, that's the point, though. This discussion thread is about walkable cities. I should also point out that urban planning that gives priority to people who walk benefits everyon
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by rekado 5y ago
"virtue signalling"? Nobody even sees me doing this. Signalling to the squirrels? Political reasons? You bet! Everything we do is political. We are /zoon politicon/. I do things the way I do them because I like it
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by rekado 5y ago
Oh, you misunderstand. Involving a car would most definitely not make it a better solution. I have no interest whatsoever to involve cars in my life. Having to share the roads with them is bad enough. (The arrogance of space is ridic
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by rekado 5y ago
Hmm, I find it very hard to relate to this perspective. Perhaps this is a cultural difference: I don't value efficiency in my life nearly as much as you seem to do. I don't go out of my way to waste time, but I'm perfectly
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by rekado 5y ago
I love living in a walkable city and a tiny-ass apartment (3 people, 75 square meters). When the neighborhood is attractive it becomes part of "your space". I don't need my whole world to be within the confines of these w
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by rekado 5y ago
I've never owned a car in my life, never got a drivers license. I live in a walkable city (Berlin, close to the border). When I need to haul things around the city I take the cargo bike. For decades I simply carried groceries in a bi
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by rekado 5y ago
Guix System works fine on modern hardware. I've been using it on new servers for the build farm at ci.guix.gnu.org and on laptops. Linux-libre has not been a problem. The biggest recurring issue is with graphic cards that have poor s
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by rekado 5y ago
I think you're wrong. Guix has a zfs package. The build farm just won't give you a pre-built binary due to license conflicts.
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by rekado 5y ago
> with minimal shims, you should be able to use NetBSD hardware drivers on [...] HURD The Hurd is already using rumpkernel for some servers, e.g. for audio and work is underway for disks.
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by rekado 5y ago
I actually used LilyPond for composition. It's a little less convenient because MIDI output is rather limited. But it gets the job done: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/music-production-on-guix-s...
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by rekado 5y ago
There is no glibc for OS X, so there is no way to use Guix on macos without virtualization.
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by rekado 5y ago
https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html
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by rekado 5y ago
Exactly. #guix was not closed and merely mentioned that the community had moved to Libera.
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by rekado 5y ago
This is off-topic, but I have to bite: "anti-RMS" is such a reductionist way to express this. Is our language so impoverished that we must be reduced to "anti-this" and "pro-this"? Who's "the team&qu
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Guix 1.3(guix.gnu.org)
151 points by rekado 5y ago|88 comments
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by rekado 6y ago
> Do you know if they will reject as members those GNU developers who are, openly, supporters of RMS? I can't speak for others but here's my take: I think it's not useful to have only two bins: "pro RMS" and &quo
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The GNU Assembly(gnu.tools)
16 points by rekado 6y ago|2 comments
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Guix New Supported Platform: powerpc64le-Linux(guix.gnu.org)
2 points by rekado 6y ago|1 comments
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by rekado 6y ago
If you look closely you'll see that ftp.gnu.org is an HTTP server. But it seems that you just want to troll.

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