Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-15 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote: >I don't believe that making a microcode update available makes >the situation worse. An earlier version is a non-free component >of the system anyway. I believe, that it might well worth to >provide the possibility t

Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?

2018-01-15 Thread Leah Rowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Alex, On 14/01/18 15:17, Alex Vong wrote: > Thank you. I have updated my kernel. For the browser part, I > currently run tor browser with security level set to high (so that > javascript is disabled by default). Maybe you can tell people on > #li

Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?

2018-01-15 Thread Andy Wingo
Greets, On Mon 15 Jan 2018 12:32, Leah Rowe writes: > The implications [of Meltdown/Spectre] at firmware level are > non-existent (for instance, these attacks can't, to my knowledge, be > used to actually run/modify malicious code, just read memory, so it's > not as if some evil site could insta

Manual (was: fully functional desktop installation)

2018-01-15 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.7K bytes: > Hi Quiliro! > > Quiliro skribis: > > > On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 22:11:01 +0100 > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > [...] > > >> The desktop example contains all of GNOME, when choosing GNOME, which > >> provides an email client, Web browser, and l

Re: Manual (was: fully functional desktop installation)

2018-01-15 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Does the manual want to avoid the fact that minimal knowledge of Scheme is required maybe we should add a small intro to guile or guix manual something maybe like my book called "a guile mind book" Le 15 janv. 2018 3:20 PM, "ng0" a écrit : > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.7K bytes: > > Hi Quiliro

How to list bugs on debbugs by submitter

2018-01-15 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Hello Guix, I want to share a quick hack with you about how to list bug reports on debbugs by submitter (your reports) with emacs-debbugs. You could do it interactively by evaluting: (debbugs-gnu-search) RET submitter RET YOUR-EMAIL RET Also you could define a function to type it automatic

Re: Manual (was: fully functional desktop installation)

2018-01-15 Thread ng0
Amirouche Boubekki transcribed 7.7K bytes: > Does the manual want to avoid the fact that minimal knowledge of Scheme is > required maybe we should add a small intro to guile or guix manual > something maybe like my book called "a guile mind book" So far the Guix Manual tried to just provide cross

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-15 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:07:45 +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > GNU Guix, however, by virtue of being a GNU project is hampered by its > free software credentials. "hamper" isn't a good word to use to describe the FSDG: From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-15 Thread Chris Marusich
Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > >> I think the real and thornier question for GuixSD >> is: if the recent CPU vulnerabilities require a >> microcode update to fully mitigate, then how do we >> square not recommending proprietary globs like >> this in official channe