janneke

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by janneke 3y ago
It can get even funnier when Chris Baines replaces the Nix daemon with a new implementation in Guile. Then, the NIH argument can be reused instead.
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by janneke 3y ago
That's a great compliment as I think the core vision of GNU is that all software should be free (< https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html >). Although keeping software proprietary or writing propr
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by janneke 3y ago
Have you tried reading the code? It's twice as large (107KLOC) as ext4 (45KLOC), where ext4 is viewed as a natural evolution of ext2 (7KLOC). 45KLOC of C code already sounds really scary to me, although yeah, journaling is really ni
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by janneke 3y ago
GNU is not an ecosystem (see < https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Ecosys... >), it's a philosophy. Yes, it's old. Yes, there's only little interest. Yes, there are _still_ many t
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by janneke 3y ago
Hurd does not support USB devices, officially, just yet, but these are surely exciting times. Unless maybe you're a capitalist ;-) < https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-06/msg00158...
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by janneke 3y ago
By reading the fine manual (< https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Virtualization-Serv... >) or blog post (< https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitut
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by janneke 3y ago
Rumpdisk on a GNU Guix childhurd: https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/110848429561223704 just one simple `guix system reconfigure' away! Guix Hurd on my thinkpad x60: https://todon.nl/@janneke/
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by janneke 3y ago
What I don't understand is why people are so willing to install and run opaque binary blobs, even is it's from/supporting free software-hostile Evil Corp. I've been running GNU Guix, which uses Linux-Libre--i.e., no blo
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by janneke 4y ago
Ah no, there is no competition, at least not yet ;) Stage0---of with cc_x86.c is a part---as a project started off from the bottom (hex0) and is working up. When stage0 just started, I created GNU Mes soon to be folowed by MesCC, which aim
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by janneke 6y ago
NixOS is an awesome system and Guix owes much to it and its creator, @edolstra. Although GNU Guix is my personal preference, I believe that NixOS is an excellent choice and for the most part we have a shared vision. If you are still using a
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by janneke 6y ago
I have been using GNU Guix for over 4 years now on a modern Dell laptop (exchanged the WIFI card to keep my freedom), two older thinkpads, home server. Since three years our development team at work uses Guix; the reproducible offload build
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by janneke 6y ago
For those who are not into free software, or do not believe in user freedom, I believe there's already an excellent choice of software options, many of which will also sell your privacy. You will not find GNU to compete, good luck!
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by janneke 8y ago
> This seems like a really neat idea! I think it would be cool to use > plain source code to completely bootstrap a system. Technically that's what we are working towards. Idealogically, we are working towards moving awarenes in