tl;dr: If you use WireGuard, make sure NTP (or a similar time synchronisation mechanism) is set up on all VPN endpoints as the WireGuard protocol is sensitive to time-sync issues. Also, if you connect to a WireGuard server in an IPv6 network, make sure the server's firewall has sufficiently permissive ICMPv6 rules. Read on to find out why this is important.
We built GCC 4.6.4 with RISC-V support and C++ and all that in a Debian machine, in a VisionFive board. Here is how.
Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can travel in time and that does a good job at ensuring reproducible builds, right?
Guix package structure: overview and source/origin inputs
I've been running my trusty Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer as a DNS, DHCP and Gitolite-Server at home since around 2016. It's been running on a minimal Raspbian and later on NixOS image, but I always wanted to switch it over to Guix System, to be able to do most of the configuration of my small server in Guile using Guixes tooling for maintenance and systems administration. I'll briefly describe what I did to succesfully boot Guix System in the following. I won't talk about the actual usage of Guix as a DNS, DHCP and Gitolite-Server on a Raspberry Pi for now, but eventually will cover these aspects later.
We are pleased to publish the sixth Guix-HPC annual report. Launched in 2017, Guix-HPC is a collaborative effort to bring reproducible software deployment to scientific workflows and high-performance computing (HPC). Guix-HPC builds upon the GNU Guix software deployment tool to empower HPC practitioners and scientists who need reliability, flexibility, and reproducibility; it aims to support Open Science and reproducible research.
About my personal FOSDEM 2024 experience and Guix Days
How do you use Guix on HPC when your friendly HPC admins are uncooperative? This is the ultimate solution.
Today I’m excited to announce the launch of the new System Crafters Forum!
We have some exciting news to share: AMD has just contributed 100+ Guix packages adding several versions of the whole HIP and ROCm stack! ROCm is AMD’s Radeon Open Compute Platform, a set of low-level support tools for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPUs), and HIP is the Heterogeneous Interface for Portability, a language one can use to write code (computational kernels) targeting GPUs or CPUs. The whole stack is free and “open source” software—a breath of fresh air!—and is seeing increasing adoption in HPC. And, it can now be deployed with Guix!