News from the Planet

tl;dr: If you use WireGuard, make sure NTP (or a similar time synchronisation mechanism) is set up on all VPN endpoints as the WireGuard protocol is sensitive to time-sync issues. Also, if you connect to a WireGuard server in an IPv6 network, make sure the server's firewall has sufficiently…

We built GCC 4.6.4 with RISC-V support and C++ and all that in a Debian machine, in a VisionFive board. Here is how.

Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can travel in time and that does a good job at ensuring reproducible builds, right?

Guix package structure: overview and source/origin inputs

I've been running my trusty Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer as a DNS, DHCP and Gitolite-Server at home since around 2016. It's been running on a minimal Raspbian and later on NixOS image, but I always wanted to switch it over to Guix System, to be able to do most of the configuration of my small…

We are pleased to publish the sixth Guix-HPC annual report. Launched in 2017, Guix-HPC is a collaborative effort to bring reproducible software deployment to scientific workflows and high-performance computing (HPC). Guix-HPC builds upon the GNU Guix software deployment tool to empower HPC…

About my personal FOSDEM 2024 experience and Guix Days

How do you use Guix on HPC when your friendly HPC admins are uncooperative? This is the ultimate solution.

Today I’m excited to announce the launch of the new System Crafters Forum!

We have some exciting news to share: AMD has just contributed 100+ Guix packages adding several versions of the whole HIP and ROCm stack! ROCm is AMD’s Radeon Open Compute Platform, a set of low-level support tools for general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPUs), and HIP is the…

This post is about using Guix for the provisioning and management of cloud machines and services. Beyond the official documentation, there are various great tutorials around this topic already, like this one, this one, or this other one. I'm writing this up primarily as a note-to-self, and in case…

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.