Hello all, I've been fiddling with Guix for about two days, and have
managed to make some first modifications.
I'm wondering why Guix has so much built-in functionality? I don't really
see the benefit of having this large number of packages in-tree. Similarly,
machine configs, bootloaders, build sy
Politely, my relatively-new-user observations about `guix pull` and home/system
reconfigure commands,
1. The commands, in my experience, always fail with network troubles, and the
commands must be re-issued multiple times for
things to complete. Other internet-requesting utilities such as wget,
For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux
because the source unpacking process runs out of memory.
I'm forwarding this bug to guix-devel to get more attention.
Is anybody actually using i686-linux anymore? Or should we begin to
officially remove support for it?
The idea is that it eases development because we don't have to maintain
a versioned API between the core functionality and the packages,
services, etc.
It's similar to how everything is developed together in the Linux kernel.
Also, it encourages people who are developing add-ons to Guix to
contri
Hi,
On Friday, July 26th, 2024 at 11:51 AM, Leo Famulari wrote:
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> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux
> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory.
>
> I'm forwarding this bug to guix-devel to get more attention.
>
> Is anybody actually
Hello friends!
People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile. Not just sysadmins but
regular users, too. You can read more here:
https://juix.org/guile-pam/
If you like it, you can also convert your system. [1]
Kind regards
Felix
[1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72316
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU
System distribution. wrote:
Hello friends!
People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile. Not just sysadmins but
regular users, too. You can read more here:
https://juix.org/guile-pam/
Hey,
I haven't had a cha
