Introducing myself as an Outreachy Intern

2018-04-24 Thread Sahitihi
Hi all, I Sahithi Yarlagadda, a Free Software enthusiast. I am from India, pursuing my under graduation final semester in Computer Science. I will be working as an Outreachy Intern for May-August 2018. I am glad to be part of Guix Community. I have been working with Ricardo Wurmus during the appli

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Fis Trivial writes: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Fis Trivial writes: >> >>> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. >>> >>> My daily routine is doing machine learning, which requires GPU for >>> computing nowadays. Currently I need to use CUDA from NVidia, as many of >>> you might know, it's

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Fis Trivial
Joshua Branson writes: > Fis Trivial writes: > >> Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. >> >> I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but >> some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to >> Guix based system and development environment. Most n

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Joshua Branson
Fis Trivial writes: > Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. > > I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but > some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to > Guix based system and development environment. Most notably is GPU > computing support

Have GPGPU support in guix?

2018-04-24 Thread Fis Trivial
Hi Guixs, this is actually a feature wish. I tried to use guix to manage many of my softwares on my system, but some dependencies are missing which is blocking a full transition to Guix based system and development environment. Most notably is GPU computing support. My daily routine is doing mach

Re: Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> I recently had a fair discussion over Guix vs. NixOS vs. the world: >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8a94rt/helm_system_packages_update_guix_xbps_void_linux/ > > Here’s another one for reference in response to the question “What are > the advantage

Re: Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread julien lepiller
Le 2018-04-24 17:02, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : julien lepiller writes: I would recommend getting an armv7 or x86 device, because packages will be more available than for aarch64 as with my current phone. Is this still a problem? We have two aarch64 build nodes (of which one was added very

Re: Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
julien lepiller writes: > I would > recommend getting an armv7 or x86 device, because packages will be more > available than for aarch64 as with my current phone. Is this still a problem? We have two aarch64 build nodes (of which one was added very recently), which I’d expect to be faster than

Re: Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > I recently had a fair discussion over Guix vs. NixOS vs. the world: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8a94rt/helm_system_packages_update_guix_xbps_void_linux/ Here’s another one for reference in response to the question “What are the advantages of guix vs nix?”:

Re: Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-04-24T17:12:34+0530 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > This is gold!! Thanks so much for sharing. Indeed it is! :D > Out of curiousity, any model you'd recommend, steered towards > Guix-friendliness? I would actually ask Replicant project, and potentially help with freeing/liberating the wireless

Re: Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread julien lepiller
Le 2018-04-24 13:42, Pierre Neidhardt a écrit : This is gold!! Thanks so much for sharing. This might be the last missing piece before I finally get decided to buy a smartphone for myself:) Out of curiousity, any model you'd recommend, steered towards Guix-friendliness? -- Pierre Neidhard

Re: Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Very nice initiative! I'd be very happy to share some ideas on this blog, but I still have to put my things together. I recently had a fair discussion over Guix vs. NixOS vs. the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/8a94rt/helm_system_packages_update_guix_xbps_void_linux/ Lo

Re: Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
This is gold!! Thanks so much for sharing. This might be the last missing piece before I finally get decided to buy a smartphone for myself:) Out of curiousity, any model you'd recommend, steered towards Guix-friendliness? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Cleaning up the /bin for guix.

2018-04-24 Thread Roel Janssen
Roel Janssen writes: > Dear Guix, > > When installing ‘guix’ in a profile, the ‘bin’ directory of that profile > contains: > > asn1Coding -> > /gnu/store/2fg01r58vv9w41kw6drl1wnvqg7rkv9d-libtasn1-4.12/bin/asn1Coding > asn1Decoding -> > /gnu/store/2fg01r58vv9w41kw6drl1wnvqg7rkv9d-libtasn1-4.12/

Cleaning up the /bin for guix.

2018-04-24 Thread Roel Janssen
Dear Guix, When installing ‘guix’ in a profile, the ‘bin’ directory of that profile contains: asn1Coding -> /gnu/store/2fg01r58vv9w41kw6drl1wnvqg7rkv9d-libtasn1-4.12/bin/asn1Coding asn1Decoding -> /gnu/store/2fg01r58vv9w41kw6drl1wnvqg7rkv9d-libtasn1-4.12/bin/asn1Decoding asn1Parser -> /gnu/sto

Guix on android blog post

2018-04-24 Thread julien lepiller
Hi Guix! Ludo just published my blog post about running Guix on Android on our website: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/guix-on-android/. That's a very nice example of how independent our packages are from the platform they run on! It's far from perfect, but feel free to share any

Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I’m really happy that over the last few months several people stepped up to write articles for our blog at (look, there’s a shiny new article there that’s worth reading!). I always find it interesting to read about things that people do with Guix or craz