Planet Guix

Results from Guix Fundraising We're on course to beat our fundraising target to sustain and strength Guix. We're bringing the fundraising campaign to an end, so let's cover how much we've raised and what it means for GNU Guix. After four months of fundraising we've raised €11,378 for the GNU Guix project. This means we've received money for 75% of our €15,000 annual goal. We also pre-registered tickets for Guix Days this year. Pjotr Prins and Manolis Ragkousis have done a stellar job organising it…

I've been meaning to write up a post on how I manage my Guix System configurations for a while, because I've hit on a solution that feels kinda nice, inspired by how folks do things in NixOS.

Recently I've been trying to get a PR merged with some fixes for Lua. I thought this would be a pretty straightforward thing to merge, but it turns out that modifying the Lua packages leads to 990 packages needing to be rebuilt. This is more than the 300 limit for a merge to master, so instead of merging my changes directly Andreas has kindly pushed them to a lua-team branch and queued it up behind go-team, gnome-team, and rust-team.

Last week, from Monday to Tuesday was Guix days! Guix days is an annual FOSDEM fringe event, where Guix hackers from Europe and abroad meet. This year was my second time going, and I was waiting for it all year! In this post, I’ll do a quick retrospective of what happened, and my thoughts on it. Thanks to Futurile for suggesting that I make this post :)

Up until a few months ago, I was working on a Ruby on Rails monolith. In the four years that I worked on the project, we went through a few ways of building a local development environment:

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 tools and aims to make them useful for HPC practitioners and scientists concerned with dependency graph control and customization and, uniquely, reproducible research.

There was a session on running guix on weird computers during this years Guix Days, and five people brought their purple colored MNT Pocket Reform laptops with them, which proves two things in my book:

I've been daily driving my MNT Pocket Reform for a year now, but only recently managed to set-up Guix System earlier this January, after a year of failed attempts. As of a few weeks ago I've been running:

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 1.5.0! The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual machine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from binaries—check out the download page . Guix users can update by running guix pull . It’s been 3 years since the previous release . That’s a lot of time, reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release , users continuously get new features and update by running guix pull ; but it also shows a lack of…

It’s that time of the year again: next week is FOSDEM time! As in previous years , many Guix people will be in Brussels. Right after FOSDEM, about sixty of us will gather on February 2–3 for the Guix Days! First things first: Guix presence at FOSDEM. On Saturday, January 31st : In Name resolution in package management systems — A reproducibility perspective , Gábor Boskovits will look will look at how several package managers refer to packages and how this affects reproducibility. Simon Tournier will…