Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Pjotr Prins
Thanks Amirouche, On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 09:38:56PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > On 2018-08-30 20:20, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before > > FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place > > we were last year.

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Nils Gillmann
Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.8K bytes: > Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before > FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place > we were last year. > > http://icab.be/ Is this directly before fosdem? I'd like to join this time if my schedule

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nils Gillmann writes: > Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.8K bytes: >> Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before >> FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place >> we were last year. >> >> http://icab.be/ > > Is this directly before fosdem? I'd li

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-31 Thread Benjamin Slade
Speaking from a user-perspective, I would be very much in favour of having modern Firefox and Chromium (appropriately de-Googled as much as possible, of course) as actual Guix offerings. And while there are lots of objectionable things about the www in 2018, I don't think being a GNU follower is l

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > On 2018-08-30 20:20, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before >> FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at ICAB, the place >> we were last year. >> >> http://icab.be/ > > About the specifically guix event, maybe it's a good ti

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-31 Thread George Clemmer
Gábor Boskovits writes: > George Clemmer ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug. 30., Cs, > 21:14): > >> >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >> > Ludovic Courtès writes: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I think “Guix System” is OK. >> > >> > I think so too. >> >> I recommend against renaming GuixSD >> "Guix Sys

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I would like to keep the number of talks to a minimum and leave out > introductory talks completely (that would be more suited for a general > FOSDEM audience). Instead I’d like to see more active > self-organisation. > > What do y

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-31 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I was refraining to answer, but this: On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:29 PM George Clemmer wrote: > I think this discussion was primarily triggered by the realization that > we can improve the top-level presentation of Guix by downplaying the > distinction between Guix and GuixSD. In fact, we c

Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
> > >If we want an > > improved label for the Guix system distribution, the best one is > > probably "GuixOS" since "OS" is a widely used and recognized > > abbreviation ... > > Is exactly my opinion also, so it gets a +1 > Top 3: 1) GuixOS 2) Guix 3) Guix System

bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

2018-08-31 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
We have been working on the wip-bootstrap branch with the aim to remove bootstrap binary seeds. At the moment this is for i686-linux only. The first step was to build binutils-mesboot-2.20.1a, glibc-mesboot-2.2.5 and gcc-mesboot-4.7.4 without the use of any binary binutils, glibc or gcc. The sec

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-31 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 31.08.2018 um 01:38 schrieb Benjamin Slade: > Speaking from a user-perspective, I would be very much in favour of > having modern Firefox and Chromium (appropriately de-Googled as much as > possible, of course) as actual Guix offerings. +1 (I know, building Firefox is very, very tremulous. Thus

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2018-08-31 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2018-08-31 11:35, Pjotr Prins wrote: Thanks Amirouche, On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 09:38:56PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: On 2018-08-30 20:20, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Just to clarify, we will organize a two day Guix conference before > FOSDEM. That is pretty much in the box. We have room at IC

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - devroom proposal

2018-08-31 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:40:35PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > How about a dev-room for 'fun freedom programming languages'. It may get > > a > > white space talk. Then, if I think of the work on MES and Guix it may > > not be that great a fit. My point is that we should name the room that