News from the Planet

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.

In the last few days, I got familiar with Guix, which is both a modern package management system and the main GNU Project distribution for Linux and Hurd (the Guix system). As a package management system, it can be installed on most foreign distributions, including Debian and any other, as an…

Samba or CIFS file sharing is a finicky area at best, but widely used, especially since it was heavily pushed by Microsoft in the Windows ecosystem, This makes it widely used in corporate and NAS environments and even for Linux file sharing.

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…

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…

After rebuilding all added/modified packages in Trisquel, I have been circling around the elephant in the room: 99% of the binary packages in Trisquel comes from Ubuntu, which to a large extent are built from Debian source packages. Is it possible to rebuild the official binary packages identically?…

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.

David Thompson, CTO of Spritely Institute gives a talk about 'Getting Rich Slow with Guile and Guix' at the Guix.social online meet-up. David presents how he came to Guile via his love of Emacs, his developments in Guix and games, and his work at the Spritely Institute bringing Guile Hoot to the Web…

On UNIX there is a well known tool to manage secrets called password-store or pass for short.

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.

Terraform allows infrastructure to be defined to deploy applications and other solutions as code and supports a plethora of on-premise and cloud deployment targets.

David Wilson gives his tips, tricks and workflows for Guix system crafting. David is the creator of systemcrafters.net where he streams and creates content on Guix, Guile, Emacs and crafting the perfect Linux system.

Recording (edited) of the Guix London Meetup chat with Ludovic Courtès. Ludo is a long-term #FreeSoftware hacker, interested in #lisp, #scheme and #guile. He is excited by the #nix deployment model, and created #guix.

The sidetrack we took in the past started to give us some good news. Here there are some.

Introducing functions and modules in Guile Scheme and Guix

Now and then I find myself having to open a file or an application that I don't fully trust. A common technique to deal with this is to create a disposable environment (for example a so-called container or a virtual machine) where the file or application can be safely opened. Once used, the…

Guix package structure: build-system overview build arguments

With the release of Libntlm version 1.8 the release tarball can be reproduced on several distributions. We also publish a signed minimal source-only tarball, produced by git-archive which is the same format used by Savannah, Codeberg, GitLab, GitHub and others. Reproducibility of both tarballs are…

We built GCC 4.6.4 with RISC-V support and C++ and all that and we made it run in Guix, finally.

We’ve got sidetracked, but it doesn’t really matter if we continue forward.

Guix package structure: inputs, native-inputs and propagated-inputs