Docker is known to have less than optimal security defaults, hence the hype for Podman. If you want to run rootless containers in your Guix System, it is sufficient to add the following to your operating-system configuration.
Having promoted Guix as one of the tools to support reproducible research workflows, we are happy that it is now officially presented as one way to produce and review software artifacts that accompany articles submitted to SuperComputing 2024 (SC24), the leading HPC conference. In this post we look at what this entails and reflect on the role of reproducible software deployment on conference artifact evaluation.
Guix package structure: build phases and using modify-phases
In the first part of this post, last month, I described my attempt at using my Guix home server as a virtualisation environment. With a clever use of the Guile programming language (haha, really, by copying other people's code from the internet!) I was able to set up a small number of services, each one in its dedicated virtual machine for security-through-compartmentalisation.
We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.27.
A RISC-V bootstrapping path path has been discovered. Now it’s time for the distros to catch up.
Mes 0.26.2 is a bug-fix release.
I've recently completed a major refactoring of my home server setup.
We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.1.
The sidetrack we took in the past started to give us some good news. Here there are some.