Planet Guix

I am pleased to announce the availability of Planet Guix , an Atom and RSS aggregator covering all things Guix. You can browse posts on the website or use your favourite feed reader to subscribe to the aggregate feed . Planet Guix already has subscriptions to 19 blogs from around the community; if you write about Guix (no matter how infrequently) and would like your blog to be included, or if you would like to suggest another blog I missed, please create a pull request against the repository in Codeberg — you'll see that the subscriptions are simply configured as association…

Last week I published Guix on Debian container images that prepared for today’s announcement of Guix on Trisquel/Ubuntu container images.

The debian-with-guix-container project build and publish container images of Debian GNU/Linux stable with GNU Guix installed.

There is a neat trick to make fonts on Linux look thicker and smoother and sharper. Set the following variable in <code>/etc/environment</code>:

Yesterday, I got access to a virtual machine from my university for a school project. Great! The only catch: it was only accessible in the internal network via an obscure VPN protocol.

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…

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.

A blog post documented an elegant way to configure screenshots in wayland using grim and grimshot. After moving my sway config to use the GUIX sway-service to generate the config file Iost my configured screenshot bindings.

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.

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...