Xiden/Guix design comparison

2021-08-24 Thread Sage Gerard
This is an offshoot Q&A based off Devos' questions in the "How did you handle making a GNU/Linux distribution?" thread. It pertains to how Guix compares to Xiden on some points. Given the length of both of our emails, I don't expect everyone to read this. Guix is mentioned for discussion purpos

Re: How did you handle making a GNU/Linux distribution?

2021-08-24 Thread Sage Gerard
I'll answer your questions in a different thread to limit the noise in this one. Look for the "Xiden/Guix design comparison" subject line within the next 24h. On 8/24/21 12:42 PM, Maxime Devos wrote: > Sage Gerard schreef op ma 23-08-2021 om 18:24 [+]: >> Thank you for the links! >> >>> I miss

Re: How did you handle making a GNU/Linux distribution?

2021-08-24 Thread Maxime Devos
Sage Gerard schreef op ma 23-08-2021 om 18:24 [+]: > Thank you for the links! > > > I miss which problem Xiden is solving and how it does. > > You are not the first to say so, and I'm happy to learn more about why. > > I'll try to explain in a different way here, so forgive the text wall. >

PATCH: clarify some of the Guix Linode recipe

2021-08-24 Thread Grant Shoshin Shangreaux
Hello! I hope I'm not double posting, but I think the email I intended to send before never made it out of my outbox. I recently set up GuixSD on Linode following the cookbook. I hit a few snags along the way where I either missed something or misunderstood, so I thought I'd offer a patch with a f

goproxy notes

2021-08-24 Thread raingloom
do we depend on this? if yes, it might be a good idea to disable the proxy in the importer. sorry, i don't have time to look into it myself right now, so i'm dumping it here. https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/06/goproxy-breaks-go.html

Re: How did you handle making a GNU/Linux distribution?

2021-08-24 Thread zimoun
Hi Philip, On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 13:30, Philip McGrath wrote: > On 8/23/21 11:38 AM, zimoun wrote: >> The bootstrap path of Racket in Guix is not clear to me. I miss if a >> Racket interpreter or compiler in its binary format is used (as >> Haskell for instance) or if all is compiled from sourc