Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:33:40AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > 1 There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the > > first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. > > 3 Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> The TODO list for convenience: >> >> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the >> first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. >> * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've onl

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > The TODO list for convenience: > > * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the > first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. > * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've only found it in > s

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Gábor Boskovits writes: > +) After bootstrapping a static glibc-2.2.5, I tried building a shared >    2.2.5, 2.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.6, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6.  When all failed, I >    invested a couple of days to patch 2.3.6...but that started to look >    like a gargantuan undertaking.  Iow, I

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
P Lars Böckel ezt írta (időpont: 2018. szept. 2., V 3:47): > Hello Guix, > > i wanted to recommend some changes to libvirt which would improve the > usability of libvirt. > > 1) OVMF(UEFI) capability with QEMU. In NixOS you can achieve this with > >virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true; >

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 16:13:53 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I have to say that Andreas, Mark, Marius, and others who worked on > IceCat and Chromium packaging are heroes: it’s a huge effort and we can > be grateful for that! I agree---I am very grateful for their work! -- Mike Gerwitz sig

libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-01 Thread Lars Böckel
Hello Guix, i wanted to recommend some changes to libvirt which would improve the usability of libvirt. 1) OVMF(UEFI) capability with QEMU. In NixOS you can achieve this with   virtualisation.libvirtd.enable = true;   virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuOvmf = true;    virtualisation.libvirtd.qemuVer

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Nils Gillmann
Joshua Branson transcribed 2.3K bytes: > Amin Bandali writes: > > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > >>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's > >>> almost ready[2]. > >> > >> The TODO list for convenience: > >> > >> --8<---cut here---start

Re: https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-01 Thread Amin Bandali
Hi Ricardo, > Some of you know this already, but I think it’s time for a proper > announcement here. I made a little something: > > https://issues.guix.info Awesome, it looks pretty neat! > The search box accepts issue numbers (for *any* bug on the GNU instance > of Debbugs), but it also su

https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hello Guix! Some of you know this already, but I think it’s time for a proper announcement here. I made a little something: https://issues.guix.info It tries to provide a friendlier web interface to Debbugs, the software we use for tracking bugs that are sent to bug-g...@gnu.org and for tra

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Amin Bandali
Nils Gillmann writes: > Please read into the chromium thread or search locally through it - > Marius already had some comments on ungoogled-chromium. Our chromium > browser is not just chromium taken from upstream. Many (maintained) > patches are taken and applied. Thanks for mentioning this. Y

Re: GNU Mes 0.17 released [alpha]

2018-09-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:32:30PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > > > We are delighted to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.17, representing > > 64 commits over 6 weeks. > > > > Mes is now an official GNU package and we have bootstrapped gcc-4.7.4 > > for x86-li

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - devroom proposal

2018-09-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 02:37:10PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Done @ http://community.schemewiki.org/?FOSDEM2019 That looks great. Love the logo. > I also pinged #scheme and racketeers. > > What about LUA people? We'll try and connect. Pj.

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 04:13:53PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I have to say that Andreas, Mark, Marius, and others who worked on > IceCat and Chromium packaging are heroes: it’s a huge effort and we can > be grateful for that! So many heroes here! Pj.

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-09-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Jan Nieuwenhuizen ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug. 31., P 18:32): > We have been working on the wip-bootstrap branch with the aim to remove > bootstrap binary seeds. At the moment this is for i686-linux only. > > The first step was to build binutils-mesboot-2.20.1a, > glibc-mesboot-2.2.5 and gcc-me

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Joshua Branson
Amin Bandali writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's >>> almost ready[2]. >> >> The TODO list for convenience: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> * There is still some data transmitted wh

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Nils Gillmann
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 507 bytes: > Hi, > > Amin Bandali skribis: > > > I highly recommend looking into ungoogled-chromium [0], which > > "modifies Google Chromium to remove Google integration and > > enhance privacy, control, and transparency". It's not exactly a > > fork, but rather a se

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Benjamin Slade skribis: > Speaking from a user-perspective, I would be very much in favour of > having modern Firefox and Chromium (appropriately de-Googled as much as > possible, of course) as actual Guix offerings. > > And while there are lots of objectionable things about the www in 20

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-09-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > We haven’t discussed the kind of event we would like to have, so here > are some thoughts. I think it would be a good idea to use this > opportunity to facilitate small group projects. We could start by > having everyone think of a small Guix-related proje

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Amin Bandali skribis: > I highly recommend looking into ungoogled-chromium [0], which > "modifies Google Chromium to remove Google integration and > enhance privacy, control, and transparency". It's not exactly a > fork, but rather a series of patches and modifications they apply > to each

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - devroom proposal

2018-09-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le ven. 31 août 2018 à 19:49, Pjotr Prins a écrit : > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > > How about a dev-room for 'fun freedom programming languages'. It may get > > > a > > > white space talk. Then, if I think of the work on MES and Guix it may > > > not b

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-09-01 Thread Nils Gillmann
Pjotr Prins transcribed 466 bytes: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 07:36:35AM +, rchar01 wrote: > > As an example, PureOS had a similar idea for the name. > > > > - https://www.pureos.net/ > > - from https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html > > We should have some flavours: > > FunGuixOs >

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-09-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 07:36:35AM +, rchar01 wrote: > As an example, PureOS had a similar idea for the name. > > - https://www.pureos.net/ > - from https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html We should have some flavours: FunGuixOs SeriousGuixOs VerySeriousGuixOS VerySeriousGuixOSIndee

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-09-01 Thread rchar01
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