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by rekado 6y ago
Guile uses lightening (with an "e"), which is derived from GNU lightning: https://gitlab.com/wingo/lightening
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by rekado 6y ago
"Random FTP server"? You mean the GNU FTP server?
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by rekado 6y ago
Speaking of which: Guile also has a picture language: https://elephly.net/guile-picture-language/
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by rekado 6y ago
>> If you want something fancier, you could go with something like [Guix]( https://guix.gnu.org/ ) or [Nix]( https://nixos.org/explore.html ) if your customers are developers or otherwise technical. >
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by rekado 6y ago
> I found that flipping back and forth between the lilypond "source" and the rendered result was too slow. I found Frescobaldi to be a decent compromise in that regard as it serves as a decent Lilypond editor while keeping the
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by rekado 6y ago
It doesn't faze me, because I'm not automating plugin parameters for things like reverb, compression, etc, so zipper noises simply don't happen. If I were to use automation and dynamically adjust parameters during playback a
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by rekado 6y ago
Yes, that's the plan. I've been really busy these days, so even finishing the blog post was very difficult, but I intend to upload everything to my own blog at https://elephly.net within a month or so. The license wil
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by rekado 6y ago
It's a whole GNU system distribution using Guix to build the system reproducibly, providing roll-backs at the system level, using Guile Scheme even as early as the initrd, etc. I don't know what you mean by "GNU utils",
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by rekado 6y ago
Hah, it would seem so. I'm no Bob Culbertson, but I should say that I find the Stick to be rather easy to learn. Its inverted fifths tuning for the bass side makes a whole lot of sense to this recovering guitarist. What's certai
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by rekado 6y ago
Honest author here -- I'm very happy that you noticed my humble blog post! I'm a big fan of Ardour and have been using it in my amateurish ways on and off since 200...7? I wasn't aware of the Calf plugins being a source of c
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by rekado 6y ago
Author here. I use JACK 1 because it serves me well enough. I don't need the DBus features JACK 2 has, for example. Up until recently the recommendation was to use whichever version you want; now I just checked and the JACK authors
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Music Production on Guix System(guix.gnu.org)
181 points by rekado 6y ago|57 comments
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by rekado 6y ago
Nixpkgs also has a lot of generated packages that cannot actually be built successfully, such as a large number of R packages.
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by rekado 6y ago
> Guix should lean into this one major strength and put out an Emacs-centered heavily opinionated installer image that uses EXWM for its window manager. Wat? While I live in Emacs I find it a terrible disservice to Guix to focus on this
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by rekado 6y ago
I found the Guix documentation to be excellent albeit somewhat lacking in examples. The manual also includes a Getting Started section, so you don't need to read all 500+ pages to figure out how to use it.
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by rekado 6y ago
> Guix and Nix [...] require you to learn a new language Not true. `guix install foo`, done. Oh, you want to define an operating system declaratively in a file? Yeah, learn the DSL that was designed to let you do just that.
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by rekado 6y ago
There was early work on using IPFS as a substitute distribution mechanism, but the API changed and nobody has picked up the existing work yet. But I agree that this would be a great feature and I hope someone will feel motivated to pick up
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by rekado 6y ago
System configuration is also just another store item, really. The current development, however, is to move away from the old nix-daemon and to (slowly) finish its replacement that reuses all of the other existing Guix features for process
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by rekado 6y ago
> Guix started as a fork of Nix This is repeated often but it is an unfortunate misunderstanding. One self-contained component of Nix was used unaltered in Guix: the nix-daemon. Everything else but the daemon (and that's a lot
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by rekado 6y ago
When you think of Guix as a source distribution first and a binary distribution second this makes sense. The build farm is just another user that builds everything from source. If it didn't catch up with the builds because someone ju
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GNU Guix 1.2.0(guix.gnu.org)
237 points by rekado 6y ago|193 comments
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Childhurds and GNU/Hurd Substitutes(guix.gnu.org)
7 points by rekado 6y ago|0 comments
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by rekado 6y ago
I don't have a phone, not even landline. It's fine. People adjust to the fact that I'll reply to emails when I have time.
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by rekado 6y ago
The derivation format is little more than a compilation artifact (a low-level representation of a build), and I think standardizing on it would not be as useful as it may seem.
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by rekado 6y ago
I added different variants of lammps to a Guix channel we maintain at our institute: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb/blob/master/bimsb... Thankfully, Guix makes it easy to take an existing pac
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by rekado 6y ago
> guix was pretty close, at least in part because of the whole "packages are just side-effects of a functional programming language" idea This must be a misunderstanding. One of the big visible differences of Guix compared to
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by rekado 6y ago
I think having a separate package manager for every piece of software I use is just terrible. I also don't want to be forced to use application bundles. You get isolation (re "hide its Python binary"), multiple package varia
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Running a Ganeti Cluster on Guix(guix.gnu.org)
3 points by rekado 6y ago|1 comments
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by rekado 6y ago
It's not the same. Guix also has "guix build --check" which builds a package a second time to compare potentially different results. "guix challenge" challenges different substitute servers and also compares what t
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by rekado 6y ago
I generally don't like to talk about other projects negatively, because I don't think that Nix and Guix should compete. They are different takes on the same concept. But as I'm very familiar with Guix and have occasionally

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