Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-11 Thread Dirk Scheuring
Hi Ricardo, Ludo, and Andreas, thank you for your feedback. Things really looked scarier to me before we had this conversation. I'm still insecure about some things - what about D-Bus, which some programs also expect to be in a certain place? - but since both the Jack and Xfce packages use it alre

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-10 Thread Dirk Scheuring
Andreas Enge wrote: > ... Definitely you could start helping the Guix project (and your own project) by packaging software that you are interested in and that we do not provide yet. Some guile/scheme knowledge is helpful, but not strictly required, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-ghm-an

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-09 Thread Dirk Scheuring
Ludo wrote: > Ideally, it would boil down to preparing a custom 'operating-system' declaration-with all the services and packages of interest ready to use-that users would inherit from to further customize things. Yes, that would be the idea. You here and and your relatives (1) are way further up

A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-02 Thread Dirk Scheuring
Hello all, my name is Dirk Scheuring, and I come out of the "conventional" world of professional audio and video production and performance - a world which is dominated by proprietary programs: Adobe Premiere, Logic Pro Audio, Ableton Live, Traktor, Serato, to name a few "standa