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Using Guix publish to run a local caching substitution server.

Making development reproducible, easy and fun with Guix

Using Guix shell to create isolated environments and containers

Let’s reflect on some of my recent work that started with understanding Trisquel GNU/Linux, improving transparency into apt-archives, working on reproducible builds of Trisquel, strengthening verification of apt-archives with Sigstore, and finally thinking about security device threat models. A…

About the possibility of having Windows users as clients being a software developer that doesn’t use Windows, and how to solve that technically.

Will those binaries actually work? This is a central question for HPC practitioners and one that’s sometimes hard to answer: increasingly complex software stacks being deployed, and often on a variety of clusters. Will that program pick the right libraries? Will it perform well? With each…

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24.2, representing 25 commits over nine months by four people.

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As has been the case for 9 years (!), Guix will be present at FOSDEM, the big annual free software developer conference in Europe. There will be no less than ten Guix-related talks, of which the following are particularly relevant to the HPC and reproducible research communities:

Layering Guix profiles and activating them at login.

Automating and managing multiple Guix profiles.

Guix profiles to logically separate package sets

While my first impression of Guix 1.4rc2 on NV41PZ was only days ago, the final Guix 1.4 release has happened. I thought I should give it a second try, although being at my summer house with no wired ethernet I realized this may be overly optimistic. However I am happy to say that a guided…

On the shortlist of things to try on my new laptop has been Guix. I have been using Guix on my rsnapshot-based backup server since 2018, and experimented using it on a second laptop but never on my primary daily work machine. The main difference with Guix for me, compared to Debian (or Trisquel),…

Installing applications in Guix with manifests

Using channels to find more apps on Guix - including proprietary ones from the nonguix channel

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.24.1, representing 23 commits over five months by four people.

The Guile bindings for GnuTLS has been part of GnuTLS since spring 2007 when Ludovic Courtès contributed it after some initial discussion. I have been looking into getting back to do GnuTLS coding, and during a recent GnuTLS meeting one topic was Guile bindings. It seemed like a fairly…

This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links but I thought hey,…

Bringing RISC-V support to the bootstrappable TinyCC Mes forked. Some problems and a look into the future.

Common workflows when using the Guix package manager

Discussing what changes need to be done to make GCC compilable form a simpler C compiler, TinyCC.

Description of the changes applied from a minimal compiler that runs and generates assembly to something that is actually able to compile, interacting with binutils and having a working libgcc.

On a new-to-me ThinkPad T440p, I’ve had the worst time with the TrackPoint.