self hosting hardware

In the next autumn/winter I would like to try to set up a self hosting solution And I'd love it to be GuixSD based I need some help with selecting the hardware that fits the goal Hardware is not exactly my thing A Beaglebone board (or equivalent) ? An Intel NUC (or equivalent) ? It should proba

Re: self hosting hardware

I forgot: I might want to run a Mastodon (or GNU Social) instance and a Mediagoblin instance

Re: self hosting hardware

Catonano transcribed 0.4K bytes: > I forgot: I might want to run a Mastodon (or GNU Social) instance and a > Mediagoblin instance As you've noticed yourself when we had that conversation, GNU Social would be easier to get into Guix native than Mastodon. While I was working on it (or occasionally

Rails

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:03:48AM +, ng0 wrote: > While I was working on it (or occasionally do) I wonder why we have so > little rails packages? What happened there? Ruby support is great in Guix. But we don't use Rails much, yet. Dave started packaging some time back, but not sure what happ

Re: Rails

Pjotr Prins transcribed 0.4K bytes: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:03:48AM +, ng0 wrote: > > While I was working on it (or occasionally do) I wonder why we have so > > little rails packages? What happened there? > > Ruby support is great in Guix. But we don't use Rails much, yet. Dave > started

Re: self hosting hardware

2017-07-12 10:03 GMT+02:00 ng0 : > Catonano transcribed 0.4K bytes: > > I forgot: I might want to run a Mastodon (or GNU Social) instance and a > > Mediagoblin instance > > As you've noticed yourself when we had that conversation, GNU Social > would be easier to get into Guix native than Mastodon.

Re: cuirass evaluate

Hi Ludo, A cuirass question : In src/cuirass/base.scm, you wrote the following comment : --8<---cut here---start->8--- ;; Register the results in the database. ;; XXX: The 'build-derivations' call is blocking so we end updating the ;; database potential

Re: RPC pipelining

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Roel, > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be >> uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable >> substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls): >> substitute: ;;; ERROR: missing interfac

Re: self hosting hardware

2017-07-12 11:06 GMT+02:00 Solène Rapenne : > Je 2017-07-12 09:19, Catonano skribis: > > > In the next autumn/winter I would like to try to set up a self hosting >> solution >> >> And I'd love it to be GuixSD based >> >> I need some help with selecting the hardware that fits the goal >> Hardware i

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

Hi Ludo, > Yes. At the REPL, you can do: > > ,use(guix) > ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) I tried: ,use (gnu system vm) ,use (gnu system install) ,use (guix) ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) (derivation->output-path $3) and get $3 = # /gnu/store/pjrkpn

Re: self hosting hardware

Je 2017-07-12 09:19, Catonano skribis: In the next autumn/winter I would like to try to set up a self hosting solution And I'd love it to be GuixSD based I need some help with selecting the hardware that fits the goal Hardware is not exactly my thing A Beaglebone board (or equivalent) ? An I

Re: self hosting hardware

You should also take a look at ARM, such as Gigabyte MP30-AR1

Re: RPC pipelining

> Why does Guix need Shepherd? And if it needs the (charting) > module, why isn't guile-charting already an input? Guile Charting is optional. The error is misleadingly alarming. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net

Re: self hosting hardware

Catonano writes: > Let's say I just want statiic web sites, a mail server and an IRC bouncher > > That is: let's talk about hardware. That's where I need help I’m using a Samsung N148 netbook for elephly.net. I don’t run a mail server, but I use it for XMPP, IRC bouncer, static web sites, git

Re: self hosting hardware

Je 2017-07-12 14:40, Pjotr Prins skribis: You should also take a look at ARM, such as Gigabyte MP30-AR1 I wasn't aware of the availability of this hardware. But it's pretty expensive, the motherboard with SoC processor costs ~450€.

Re: self hosting hardware

Hello, On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Solène Rapenne wrote: > Je 2017-07-12 14:40, Pjotr Prins skribis: >> >> You should also take a look at ARM, such as Gigabyte MP30-AR1 > > I wasn't aware of the availability of this hardware. Is this still really available ? My 5 secs search found it looks

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

> Also, what do you think of us providing a "guix system" command for this? guix system disk-image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm Adapted for my purposes, from the manual :)

Automatically detect other OSs and generate grub entries

Instead of having to manually specify custom grub entries in config.scm, can Guix use os-prober to automatically detect other operating system and generate grub entries? https://joeyh.name/code/os-prober/

Substitute caching restored

Hello Guix! Tired of updating the list of substitutes? I have some good news for you! Since the switch to Guile 2.2.2, because of a bug (an otherwise known bug) in SRFI-19, ‘guix substitute’ would be storing the wrong date in cached narinfos in /var/guix/substitute/cache. Consequently, we’d be

Re: ISO-9660 image working and ready

Hey hey! (This is a followup to .) Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > If we want we can (in the future) provide only the iso9660 image on the > homepage (for x86_64). > > It will work from CD and USB flash drive - that should cover all the options. Are you saying that

Gexp news

Hello Guix! Last week I fiddled with gexps: • I rebased ‘wip-build-systems-gexp’ on ‘core-updates’ and improved/optimized a bunch of things. It’s now close to ‘master’ performance-wise, which was the main blocker for this branch. Hopefully I’ll look into it again next week or so.

Re: ISO-9660 image working and ready

Hi Ludo, On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:20:26 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > It will work from CD and USB flash drive - that should cover all the > > options. > > Are you saying that the same image could be either dd’d to a USB key or > burnt on an actual CD? Yes. > Are there any d

Re: Substitute caching restored

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:47:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > Tired of updating the list of substitutes? I have some good news for > you! > > Since the switch to Guile 2.2.2, because of a bug (an otherwise known > bug) in SRFI-19, ‘guix substitute’ would be storing the wrong

Re: core-updates summer 2017

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:22:37PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 04:47:06PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > Let's use this thread to discuss the state of the branch. > > I've reconfigured and rebooted my x86_64-linux GuixSD system based on > the latest core-updates (2f0d1b9dd

Bootstrapping Guix on HPC without Root

Hello, I have been attempting to install Guix on the University of Washington's HPC using a modified bootstrapping script based on https://github.com/pjotrp/nix-no-root The script can currently be found here (to be forked and pushed to GH when verified as working): https://communitydata.cc/~salt