Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.

2020-10-10 Thread Brendan Tildesley
Hi, I went through the installer looking for anything negative I could say about it :) hope there is something helpful here: Unrelated driver bug: installer was just a black screen until I rebooted with nomodeset:  https://paste.debian.net/1166581/ Even with nomodeset, I get an error about no

First impressions from delving into Guix

2020-10-10 Thread Lulu
Hello everyone! I've been navigating Guix for the past couple days. Here's how it went: At first, I added a skeleton for `guix git log' by copying from `guix git authenticate'. It might be useful to have a generic template for Guix scripts, with conventions and all, by the way, because there isn'

Re: Guix Europe yearly assembly minutes increasing membership

2020-10-10 Thread Brett Gilio
Joshua Branson writes: > > One quick way to do this, may be to sign the user up to be a member of > the FSF. Becoming a member of guix, would transparently sign them up to > be an associate member of the FSF, which would give them the 5 email > aliases, an irc nick, and I think a meet.jit.si ins

Re: Guix Europe yearly assembly minutes increasing membership

2020-10-10 Thread Joshua Branson
In this email you include some of guix's finances. Should we guix mention this membership option on the website? To encourage more members, what if guix offered membership that included some perks? The FSF has such perks when you sign up to be a member. On the guix site, we could offer some o

Re: [BLOG] Running Guix System on a Linode Server

2020-10-10 Thread Joshua Branson
Chris did a lot of the manual lifting. He wrote the initial guide in email form. I just reformatted it. :) If the others are interested, perhaps I could add Vultr to the cookbook. I'm always game for showing people how to affordably run guix system on a VPS. My sites use it, and the certbot

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

2020-10-10 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 at 20:53, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > - Textual database: slow and not lighter than SQLite. Not worth it I believe. Maybe I am out-of-scope, but re-reading *all* the discussion about “fileserch”, is it possible to really do better than “locate”? As Ricardo mentioned. --8

Guix Europe yearly assembly minutes

2020-10-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, the minutes of the yearly assembly of Guix Europe, which we held last June, are finally online: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/guix-europe/minutes/ga-20200621.txt Enjoy, Andreas

New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.2.0-pre1)

2020-10-10 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Russian team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ru.po (We can arrange things

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

2020-10-10 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 at 10:57, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Of course, `guix filesearch` hasn't been implemented yet ;) Sorry, I have overlooked the status. :-) > We still need to decide whether we want to make it part of `guix search' > or define a separate command. >From my point of view, i

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

2020-10-10 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Of course, `guix filesearch` hasn't been implemented yet ;) We still need to decide whether we want to make it part of `guix search' or define a separate command. Thoughts? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [BLOG] Running Guix System on a Linode Server

2020-10-10 Thread Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
Hi, I want to thank Joshua Branson and Christopher Lemmer Webber for their article on Guix and Linode servers [1], it's always nice to look up and see more GNU Guix in the clouds. Since the post contains an invitation to run websites using Guix System, I thought to reply saying I've accepted the