Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Tobias Platen writes: > Leah Rowe uses the nickname _4of7 on IRC, she is the founder of Libreboot I see - I did not know. Thank you for clarifying that! -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Does Guix publish work with mDNS?

Marius Bakke writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> Perhaps I only dreamed it? > > I'm afraid it was only a dream. Perhaps someday it, or something like it, will be real! :-) Thank you for the reply. -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [bug#27438] [PATCH] guix: build: ruby-build-system: Install to the vendor directory

Hi Chris, On 18/12/17 00:19, Christopher Baines wrote: Hey, It's been a while since I looked at this, but I think it's still relevant. As a reminder, currently the search paths for the Ruby packages in Guix are a bit off [1], which makes it difficult to use Ruby gems with different versions o

Re: Does Guix publish work with mDNS?

Chris Marusich writes: > By "Guix publish works over mDNS," I mean that if I publish substitutes > on one machine in my network, then other machines on my network will > discover the publishing endpoint via mDNS and use it transparently like > any other substitute server (assuming that my network

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Gábor Boskovits writes: > The second thing that comes to my mind is to have a free tool to perform > the microcode update, so that we can inspect, that nothing else on the > system gets modified. FWIW there is a tool that does this in Guix already: "iucode-tool". Here is the latest microcode fr

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

With regards to BSD-3-Clause-Clear and BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD vs. GPL (and variants), the latest version and "or-later" option of the latter allows a chance to transfer the freedoms of the software to the end-users' copy (it's not a perfect ingredient, because it depends on the rights holder to enfor

Ideas for Summer of Code 2018 anyone?

Hello Guix! It’s time to prepare for GSoC again! We need to collect ideas, presumably based on , in a new “GSoC-2018” page on that wiki. Let’s add new ideas to ! Does someone want to take care

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Leo Famulari writes: >> Morally, at least in the short-to-medium term, I'm not convinced. >> The smell of privilege becomes hard to ignore with the costs and other >> assumptions involved. > > I think I agree with you here, Tobias. > > To me, the right choice is not to suggest that people replace