Re: Thank you for your leadership Ludo

Hi! I found here in Guix not only the idea that implements - free software - reproducible builds, - better control over system - and something for the 5th industrial revolution but also community and relations with the other projects. Guix uses sources from the different original places (from the

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

u may organize our new community with our own new resources, structure and control. With our own power and rules. Do you think it will be better for Guix to create new FREE COMMUNITY? But we cannot take off somebody's rights on his own organization like GNU and so on. znavko. October 7, 2019 2:33 PM

Re: Is there a way to upgrade only packages with substitutes?

Hello, LpRndn! Your offer places all the work at the shoulders of developers. If we want to be more patient, we can please Ludovic Courtes to add an option --fast: guix package -u --fast This option will update only packages with substitutes and very small packages without substitutes (if they

Re: Is there a way to upgrade only packages with substitutes?

Hello, Katherine! I fuzzily remember this subject in maillists, maybe we discussed this feature. And there were instruction of how to define in `guix package -u` those packages you won't update. Also I know guix has feature to check substitutes (`guix weather`, is it?). I think we need a script

CPU frequency plugin for Xfce4

Hello! I have too slow notebook and need to see CPU usage. LXDE provided cpu usage applet by default, but here in Guix System we havenow only Xfce4. Can I here somehow to add plugin to the menubar with cpu usage?

Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

** TODO make a wiki online for newcomers ** TODO make some other methods for chatting (for those who use free vpn, tor)

Re: New episode of Libre Lounge out interviewing Ludovic about Guix!

Thank you. Nice speech. June 21, 2019 9:52 PM, "Christopher Lemmer Webber" wrote: > Hey all! I'm really excited to say that there's a new episode of Libre > Lounge out (a podcast I co-host) and we interview Ludovic Courtès about > Guix! There's a lot of cool stuff in here, including some discu

Re: Documentation videos are being uploaded!

Wow! I want to see these topics: - disk partitioning on guix system installation (manual lacks detailed info) - how to learn guile - how to get rid with configuration file - how actually read guix errors and where to look for more info (I really had not learnt this yet) - config.scm examples for x

Check whether package has substitution

Hello! Users that have experience to install packages from binaries may have troubles waiting compilation process. I want to propose some things that can appreciably improve Guix users experience. Users do not want to wait the compilation process. This may happen on installation and update. Gui

Re: New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.0.0-pre3)

I have just sent both: guix-manual-1.0.1-pre1.ru.po, guix-manual-1.0.0-pre3.ru.po containing exact the same content. If it is right. As I understood, we go up in version number. May 11, 2019 8:14 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Hi Pavel and znavko, > > Ludovic Courtès s

Re: New template for 'guix-manual' made available

Thank you! I only translate and publish on TP. All other things are yours, Florian. I think, that Russian translation team's leader Pavel also rests it to us, guix developers and translators. May 11, 2019 4:44 PM, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 05:51:32PM +0200

Re: Update on 1.0.1

Sorry for this, but "Graphical Installation" people can understand as graphical mode, but actually it is console mode with menus. It is kind of non-sense. May 9, 2019 3:58 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Hello Guix! > > It’s been one week since 1.0! We’ve been partying, but not as long as > we’

Re: New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.0.0-pre3)

I updated to https://gitgud.io/znavko/guix-manual-ru/blob/master/guix-manual-1.0.0-pre3.ru.po Ok. Now awaiting your publication and will continue to edit it. Hope my translations rests there. May 9, 2019 2:48 PM, "Pavel Maryanov" mailto:a...@jack.kiev.ua?to=%22Pavel%20Maryanov%22%2

Re: New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.0.0-pre3)

Hello, Ludvic! Thank you for your corrections. Pavel had added me (znavko) to TP translators team to guix-manual, guix, guix-packages packages. So, I can send updates, but I need your support. I do not understand how to translate “contributing.texi” to “contributing.ru.texi” cause I did not

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Hi! I want be able to see which version number of guix I have, not commit but human-readable version, such as 1.0.0. How to do this? Once performing `guix pull` I saw it, but now I cannot do it this ways: # guix describe Generation 88 May 02 2019 17:18:30 (current) guix 48f19e6 repository URL:

check guix human readable version

Hi! I want be able to see which version number of guix I have, not commit but human-readable version, such as 1.0.0. How to do this? Once performing `guix pull` I saw it, but now I cannot do it this ways: # guix describe Generation 88 May 02 2019 17:18:30 (current) guix 48f19e6 repository URL:

Re: Last translation round on Monday?

Hello, Ludovic! Thank you! TP's Russian Team coordinator will add me this week after Russian 1 May holidays, and I will publish my Russian guix-manual translation. Now it's ready on 14%. And it is available in gitgud: https://gitgud.io/znavko/guix-manual-ru There are ready chapter

Re: Last translation round on Monday?

Hello, Ludovic! Thank you! TP's Russian Team coordinator will add me this week after Russian 1 May holidays, and I will publish my Russian guix-manual translation. Now it's ready on 14%. And it is available in gitgud: https://gitgud.io/znavko/guix-manual-ru There are ready chapter

Re: GNOME

Hello, Gururajan! I think, yes. You can discover it from gnome package definition in Guix Cgit. Package gnome is declared here http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/gnome.scm#n6430 And there are propagated-inputs field, where other packages from gnome-core are added. May 2

Re: One-shot Shepherd services

Is there possibility to define dependencies? F.e. networking will depend on my on-eshot service? Also what is service 'networking' really is, and can I use wpa-supplicant + dhcp-client without meta-service networking? April 18, 2019 9:39 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Hello Guix! > > Today I

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

Hello, Ludovic! If commit has important meaning for all Guix users, it must give a short news entry for the users that are now developers and do not really read git logs. How to perform this? There are git commit messages that may have some specific rule for containing news. For example, your co

Re: "guix system -u" and "guix system --list-packages"

Is it now possible to get list of all installed packages such as dependencies for installed packages and packages installed with system configuration? I really do not know yet. April 16, 2019 10:42 AM, "Raghav Gururajan" mailto:%22Raghav%20Gururajan%22%20)> wrote: Hello Guix! Idea of adding fol

Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

I was reading this https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?qt=grep&q=slim and found a record '2019-03-28 services: desktop: Switch to GDM'. This change had made users' configurations unworkable. Update to this commit could bring bothers. I think it will be the best to have some layer of i

Re: Let’s translate!

I had this idea to translate guix manual into Russian from October '18. That was not easy to get around with this. But now I have emacs with po-mode. And I will do it in a free time. Think, till January '20 Russian guix manual will be ready. April 12, 2019 8:43 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: >

Re: What is the philosophy behind shepherd?

Hello, Katherine! I've tried a little systemd, openrc and now I am using GuixSD with shepherd. Lot of people and developers use systemd. Here it is a link you may get info from http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Here some theses https://ihatesystemd.com it was interesting for me

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

Do not think it is necessary, but may be it will have sense for SWH team. In Russia their ip 217.70.184.38 is blocked by Roskomnadzor (this is a ministry of communications and Internet), so it is not opening. https://reestr.rublacklist.net/search/?q=217.70.184.38

Re: Guix on a microkernel

Thanks for your compilation. Do you have found actual benchmark tests? https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq/slow.html "The Hurd is currently slower than Linux, yes. But not very much, so it is completely usable." Vulnerabilities of processors is

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

Hello! Looks like reproducible builds are like videos on video hosting. You may share your screencast or videos, the others can see your screen exactly. But there are limitations: you need to have an account on exactly one video hosting. There were challenges in Ludovic Courtès article. Releases

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

I've translated into Russian here https://www.opennet.ru/tips/info/3100.shtml It is interesting occupation to study and translate something when I have free time. Mar 29, 2019, 4:05 PM by l...@gnu.org: > Hello! > > I’ve written a post on the Softwa

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

Very useful for learning and deeping. First distributions provisioned a base for working. GuixSD provisions tools for hacking on meta-level. Containers, virtual-machines, sharing of environment, time-back machine, think it's important for industry 4.0. Mar 29, 2019, 4:05 PM by l...@gnu.org: > H

Re: https://lists.gnu.org is down

ok. now works. but I've just stuck it's offline. Mar 29, 2019, 5:20 PM by m...@tobias.gr: > znavko, > > znavko wrote: > >> sorry, page is not opening. >> Is server online? >> > > Works for me™, and I haven't noticed any interruptions during the past few > hours. > > Kind regards, > > T G-R >

https://lists.gnu.org is down

sorry, page is not opening. Is server online?

Re: Status update on 1.0

Thank you! Nice work! Guile handbook wanted! Mar 27, 2019, 3:26 PM by l...@gnu.org: > Hello! > > Ludovic Courtès <> l...@gnu.org > > skribis: > >> • The installer should be changed to produce the right >> ‘initrd-modules’ field, using the same mechanism used by >> ‘check-

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

Hello, bill! Thanks for your clarifications! Really, is it possible to make chromium free software? Also, FSF free software directory can divide packages by criteria like 1) Totally free GNU - open-source and free license GPL 2) Totally free nonGNU - - open-source and free license non-GPL 3) Totall

Re: New topic: packaging

GuixSD declared features are academic way of evolution. Guile instead of self-made language. Transactions and wide control of packages versions instead of on the wing updates that break the system. Sorry my French. If we describe the advantages of Guix for the users, there will be many sites whe

Re: New topic: asking for help

Hello, Laura! Your posts are awesome, cause me too want to have better connection with gurus. There are lists I've subscribed to: Guix Help https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/ Guix Devel https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/ <

Re: Issue with my version of guix

Hello, Laura! To update guix use this line under every user you need: $ guix pull && guix package -u by root the same: # guix pull && guix package -u Then `guix describe` or `guix --version` will show the commit you have. But I really do not know how to look human readable version like 0.15 or

Re: FOSDEM 2019: Thank you!

Cool story from Ricardo Wurmus! https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/guixinfra/ "The concept of the workflow is  the expansion of the idea of pipeline."

Re: Brain storming cool Guix features

Hello! As topic is started, I suggest this to a roadmap http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP> : znavko`s  roadmap suggestions: - total guix architecture guide (not only descriptions of cases ‘environment’, ‘