Planet Guix

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It seems we are a bit overdue to say hello! We're very excited to announce Guixotic, a consultancy cooperative specializing in GNU Guix and Guile. We offer a wide range of services, from commercial support and DevOps to training and feature development. You can read our first announcement to the world on the guix-devel mailing list.

Update on the Guix Fundraising

We're on our way It's been a month since we started the fundraising campaign to Sustain and Strengthen Guix. So far we've raised €6562 which is around 40% of our €15000 annual goal. If you'd like to support the project's fundraiser there's still time, pop over to the donate page now! DONATE NOW There have been a range of donations, both one-off and recurring. A few people have made large one-off donations, one of over €2150!There have been a couple between €500-€250 and a…

How to Set Up Guile Load Path

Guile Load Path is a place (or more precisely places), where Guile looks for the source code. This is the first thing one needs to set correctly to work on a Guile Scheme project. It makes Guile aware both of your own modules and external dependencies. For more details refer to Load Paths page in Guile Reference Manual. This guide will focus on getting and setting the right values for it and discussing different approaches to do so.

Tiny Build Farm for Guix, part 2

In our efforts to create a Tiny Build Farm for Guix, that is supposed to report on the status of the packages assigned to the science team, so far we have seen how to set up the required infrastructure. On a dedicated machine with Guix as its operating system, we have added several Shepherd services: the Guix Build Coordinator together with a build agent; and the web server part of the BFFE, which enables us to follow the activity of the builders. For performance reasons, we have renounced at installing an instance of the Guix Data Service, and opt instead for talking to the instance operated by the Guix project at https://data.guix.gnu.org/, which continually evaluates the Guix master branch and creates derivations for all packages in the distribution. The next step is to explore how to programmatically talk to the remote data server from a Guile script, how to extract derivations we are interested in, and how to submit them for building to our instance of the build coordinator.

I Have to Live in a Forest to Work on Open Source

This fictional story begins more than 10 years ago. I was a student at technical university and was confused by how outdated some of the programming-related courses are. I was checking out a few first lections and usually skipping the rest of them (except a couple courses that were fun and uptodate). In my spare time I was tinkering on gentoo linux, cybersecurity and competitive programming (codeforces, ACM ICPC, etc). I wanted to start working ASAP, so that I could finally get to the most interesting part, but man, how wrong I was...

Fundraising campaign to sustain GNU Guix

Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix. Guix is completely independent from any company or institution, we rely on the support of our community to fund the project. If you can, please help sustain Guix by making a donation . DONATE NOW Why we need your support Like many Free Software projects we need financial support because running a project is expensive. We incur costs for development infrastructure, facilitating developer collaboration and supporting the community around the project. As a package manager…