I'm a new contributor and would like advice

Hi Guix team! My name is Evan Cooney, I'm 17 years old and I'm interested in contributing to guix. Specifically, I want to try to improve the performance of installing packages. I'm not a very experienced user of Guix System, but I used it for at least a few months on my desktop and I noticed that

Need help about guix home "home-run-on-first-login-service-type"

I want to use home-run-on-first-login-service-type to automatic install on-my-zshwhen first login to shell. But I got an error when I try to guilx home container home-configuration.scm -- home-configuration.scm --- ;; This "home-en

Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

Hi, El 12/10/23 a las 0:15, Luis Felipe escribió: [...] · Resource: Home page Path: https://guix.gnu.org/ Mockup: https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/downloads/temp/guix-website-2023-09-21-LF/home-page.pdf · I sent a patch that implements the mockup above (https://issues.guix.gnu.

Re: Indication of build failure from substitute servers?

"Jonathan Frederickson" writes: > I frequently end up with Guix attempting to build packages on my > lower-powered machines when there are no substitutes > available. However, a common reason that substitutes aren't available > for a package is that the package failed to build in CI! And I usuall

Re: Sustainable funding and maintenance for our infrastructure

Hello Guix and Administrators. I know I am a bit late with this reply, but I would still like to share the idea I had while reading this thread. I believe there exists a way to relatively quickly and cheaply get access to more computing power and possibly storage: DistCC + P2P distribution of th

Re: Need help about guix home "home-run-on-first-login-service-type"

On 2024-08-05 21:51:17 +0800, 花不见海 wrote: > I want to use home-run-on-first-login-service-type to automatic install > on-my-zshwhen first login to shell. > > > But I got an error when I try to guilx home container home-configuration.scm > > > -- home-configuration.scm

Re: I'm a new contributor and would like advice

Hi Evan, On Wed, Jul 31 2024, Hazel Cooney wrote: > It should not take 2 minutes using 100% of 12 threads just to create > some files. I'm also a newbie and wish I had equipment like yours! Profiles might be composed of symbolic links, which can take time to resolve on rotating disks, if you ha

Re: Why does Guix have so much in-tree functionality?

Hi Kai, On Mon, Jul 22 2024, Kai Jellinghaus wrote: > I'm wondering why Guix has so much built-in functionality? Tongue-in-cheek, because "Guix strives to bring the Emacs philosophy to the operating system." [1] Kind regards Felix [1] Sorry, I can't find the quote right now.