News from the Planet

Modifications to guix packages using inheritance

Dealing with secrets in functional operating systems can range from pretty usable to complete hell. Nix has several answers to this problem, the more integrated of which appears to be sops-nix. After spending some months envying our neighbors grass, I figured it was time for Guix to have its own…

If you need to run Grafana on the Guix System this post is the right place. In this example we'll setup Grafana to read metrics from the same machine it's run upon, but you can adapt this to use a remote datasource.

This is the outline of a short session on Guix that I had the chance to organise at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, or 37c3, in December 2023. It's not worth much, but I thought it was useful to have it here in case I want to reuse it or refer to it in the future.

How I made a program for Windows and GNU/Linux without touching any Windows machine. The tools and the tricks to be effective (Zig and NSIS for the win).

Many applications are packaged in OCI/Docker images but not in Guix. A good subset of them is written either in NodeJS, Go, Rust or languages that, as a general approach, encourage applications to have huge dependency graphs.

Using with-git package transformations and Derivations introduction

Modifying applications using manifests and package transformations

Creating package variants using just the command line tools

Introduction to the Guile REPL and querying Guix package information

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.26.

Mes 0.25.1 is a bug-fix release.

An introduction to Guix packaging - rebuilding Guix packages

Some merging and releasing has been done. So here we are.

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.25!

Guix time-travel tricks: install any version of a Guix package

We spent the last months making MesCC able to compile TinyCC and making the result of that compilation able to compile TinyCC. Many cool problems appeared, this is the summary of our work.

Guix time-travel to guarantee reproducible dev environments

We’re excited to announce the First Workshop on Reproducible Software Environments for Research and High-Performance Computing (HPC), which will take place in Montpellier, France, on November 8–10th, 2023! The preliminary program is on-line, and now’s the time for you to register!

Now it’s time to focus on combining all the previous work and making it production ready. NlNet for the rescue, again.

Two weeks ago, on June 27th, we held an second on-line hackathon on reproducible research issues. This hackathon was a collaborative effort to bring GNU Guix to concrete examples inspired by contributions to the online journal ReScience C.

A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions.

A core tenet of science is the ability to independently verify research results. When computations are involved, verifiability implies reproducibility: one should be able to re-run the computations to ensure they get the same results, at which point they may want to start experimenting with…

Static site generator is a program, which accepts text files as input and produces static web pages as output. It can be useful in various scenarios: for building blog, book, documentation, project or personal page for example.

It's time to run the second Reproducible Research hackathon! The first one was from... 2020, already! The date: Tuesday June, 27th. Start: 9h30 (CEST) End: 17h30.