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 Andreas Enge
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Dirk Scheuring wrote: > This is interesting. You seem to make packaging much easier than I > thought it would be. I wonder why that is. Most packages are easy, because they just require a few declarations. One should start from easy ones, learn and move on

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Dirk Scheuring skribis: > "I performed the following changes to the files in /etc/pulse" > > when I realize that there is no /etc/pulse in Guix! Rather, the > configuration files are represented - as is everything else - by their > contribution to the hash values in /nix/store. Or that's how I cu

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Dirk Scheuring writes: > This is interesting. You seem to make packaging much easier than I > thought it would be. I wonder why that is. It really *is* rather simple. I come from a background of packaging RPMs by writing spec files and I find packaging for Guix much less painful (to the point w

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 Andreas Enge
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 06:33:02PM +0100, Dirk Scheuring wrote: > I reckon that it will take me some years to learn how to build what I > can now only describe Years, I do not know. Hopefully less! Definitely you could start helping the Guix project (and your own project) by packaging software th

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-09 Thread David Thompson
Dirk Scheuring writes: > https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/ I really like this article. It does a good job of classifying the various configuration management tools in mainstream use (imperative, stateful declarative) and showin

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

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I don’t know about the specifics of audio applications. However, in general, it should hopefully be relatively simple to provide distro configurations tailored to specific needs–like the “media production” distro you have in mind, things like TAILS, etc. Ideally, it would boil down to prepar

Re: A secure multimedia workstation

2015-02-04 Thread 宋文武
Hi! 2015-02-02 18:11 GMT+08:00 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 L

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 "standards". Those are run