This is a comment from a very different angle - another way to promote Guix is in the emerging (so I would like to believe 😅) worker cooperatives sector - there is a call for democratically directed software development (not in the do-o-cracy way that happens due to information asymmetry between "producers" and "consumers")
GNU Guix can offer maximum transparency and user friendliness 😄 -Yasu > On Jan 28, 2022, at 08:36, Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> wrote: > > On +2022-01-26 23:42:05 +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >> Yasuaki Kudo <y...@yasuaki.com> writes: >> >>> Does Guix really run out of the box in Debian? >>> >>> I have never tried it but my friend Debian expert friend keeps telling me >>> that: >>> >>> * Just apt-get installing Guix doesn't work >> >> How does “apt install guix” not work? There’s an older version of Guix >> in Debian. After installing it “guix pull” should get the latest >> version and it all works. >> > > What does "apt search guix" produce? > (Nothing, on the puri.sm variant of debian. They maintain a custom > pool based on debian minus what they want to exclude AIUI) > >> There’s also an installer script at https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh >> which skips the detour through apt and gets you the latest release >> directly. >> >>> * and his really big complaint is evidently he creates "virtual >>> environments" (short of full-on VMware, I imagine it is an assortment >>> of Linux native tricks that are wrapped by tools like Docker) for >>> every OS he tries but >>> * Evidently the same tricks don't work with Guix >> >> Is this not *exactly* what “guix shell” (formerly “guix enviromnent”) >> does? “guix shell -C” enters a container, even, using the same Linux >> namespace mechanism that Docker wraps. >> >>> * He does not want to try full blown Guix OS without first testing it in >>> above ways >> >> Guix can comfortably be used outside of Guix System. And you can >> *still* use most “guix system” commands, e.g. to build containers or >> virtual machines. >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> > > -- > Regards, > Bengt Richter
