Re: advanced?

2023-01-09 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > (Cc: Luis, for the web site design.) > > Simon Josefsson skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Or if we do want to explain more, then perhaps we need a list of >>> features that would also include things like Docker/VM image generation, >>>

Re: advanced?

2023-01-09 Thread Julien Lepiller
elopment of GNU Guix and the GNU System >> distribution." skribis: >> >>> From aac8f6d1fb382b9f9120b7cd51dc80e8ef07cc03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> From: Simon Josefsson >>> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:35:15 +0100 >>> Subject: [PATCH] websit

Re: advanced?

2023-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
sson >> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:35:15 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] website: Reduce use of 'advanced' term. >> >> --- >> website/apps/base/templates/about.scm | 4 ++-- >> website/apps/base/templates/home.scm | 6 +++--- >> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

Re: advanced?

2023-01-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, (Cc: Luis, for the web site design.) Simon Josefsson skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Or if we do want to explain more, then perhaps we need a list of >> features that would also include things like Docker/VM image generation, >> declarative home environments, etc. But that’s

Re: advanced?

2023-01-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Simon and all, Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." skribis: > From aac8f6d1fb382b9f9120b7cd51dc80e8ef07cc03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Simon Josefsson > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:35:15 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] website: R

Re: Advanced distribution

2022-12-09 Thread Ryan Prior
Hi Octavio! We had a discussion about this last month, and we might make some changes to make it clearer what "advanced" means (or perhaps change the wording.) Here's a link to that discussion in the list archive: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-11/msg00298.ht

Advanced distribution

2022-12-09 Thread Engineer Octavio
gnu.org/en/ I found the specific text: "Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system" I was wondering. Why Guix is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system? Muchas gracias. Saludos cordiales. Ing. Octavio Toscano.

Re: advanced?

2022-11-28 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 15:44, Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > Yes, that makes sense. I'm not the best person to summarize it, but > starting pointers if someone wants to take it further: Well, it is somehow part of, *

Re: advanced?

2022-11-28 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:35:13 -0800 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > It also makes me wonder if "advanced" will stand the test of > time. Someday Guix-style systems might just be status quo, and thus no > longer advanced. Guix of course will likely evolve over time... maybe &

Re: advanced?

2022-11-28 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
and roll-backs * Reproducible build environments * Designed towards bootstrappable builds Maybe this fits better directly in the Introduction section of the manual? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.html > PS: For the record, the phrase “advanced distribution of th

Re: advanced?

2022-11-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2022-11-26, Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU > System distribution." wrote: >> I find use of the term 'advanced' wrt Guix confusing and even mildly >> excluding, even though it is wide-spread. What is a

Re: advanced?

2022-11-27 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-11-26, Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > I find use of the term 'advanced' wrt Guix confusing and even mildly > excluding, even though it is wide-spread. What is advanced about Guix? > Can I use it even if I'm n

Re: advanced?

2022-11-27 Thread Ryan Prior
On Saturday, November 26th, 2022 at 9:47 PM, Simon Josefsson via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > I find use of the term 'advanced' wrt Guix confusing and even mildly > excluding, even though it is wide-spread. [...] Can I us

Re: advanced?

2022-11-27 Thread zimoun
dictionary says: 1. An advanced system, method, or design is modern and has been developed from an earlier version of the same thing. 2. Something that is at an advanced stage or level is at a late stage of development. 3. An advanced student has already learned the basic fa

Re: advanced?

2022-11-27 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Hi Simon, Am Samstag, dem 26.11.2022 um 22:47 +0100 schrieb Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > Hi > > I find use of the term 'advanced' wrt Guix confusing and even mildly > excluding, even though it is wide-spread.  What is advanced about

advanced?

2022-11-26 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi I find use of the term 'advanced' wrt Guix confusing and even mildly excluding, even though it is wide-spread. What is advanced about Guix? Can I use it even if I'm not an advanced user? What do others think? Is there some historical background for this description of Guix? How about

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Alexey Abramov skribis: >> I would do that by having ‘networking’ depend on ‘firewall’ (say). >> >> Does that make sense? >> >> It’d be interesting to see whether we need something beyond this. > > But what if I just want to stop a firewall? Won't that trigger > network to restart in that

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-11 Thread Alexey Abramov
Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Alexey Abramov skribis: > > [...] > [...] > > I would do that by having ‘networking’ depend on ‘firewall’ (say). > > Does that make sense? > > It’d be interesting to see whether we need something beyond this. But what if I just want to stop a firewall?

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-10 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 10 octobre 2022 17:17:16 GMT+02:00, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit  : >Hi! > >Alexey Abramov skribis: > >[...] > >>> I’m not sure. IIUC, a “networking target” here could translate to a >>> Shepherd service that depends on all the relevant DHCP and static >>> networking services. The question

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Alexey Abramov skribis: [...] >> I’m not sure. IIUC, a “networking target” here could translate to a >> Shepherd service that depends on all the relevant DHCP and static >> networking services. The question the becomes how to express that >> grouping conveniently. > > Yes, I also would

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-08 Thread Alexey Abramov
Hi Julien, I sent patches to guile-netlink [1]. Footnotes: [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58382 -- Alexey

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-06 Thread Julien Lepiller
I guess using debbugs would give other people a chance to have a look at your patches and comment, but I'm the only one who can push anyway. If you decide to use debbugs, make sure to CC me too. Le 6 octobre 2022 15:11:30 GMT+02:00, Alexey Abramov a écrit : >Hi Ludo, Julien > >Ludovic Courtès

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-06 Thread Alexey Abramov
Hi Ludo, Julien Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Alexey, > > (Cc: Julien, author of Guile-Netlink.) > [...] > > I’m sure your improvements to Guile-Netlink would be welcome. > Regarding ‘static-networking’ in Guix, the goal was to allow it to be as > expressive as the underlying netlink

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alexey, (Cc: Julien, author of Guile-Netlink.) Alexey Abramov skribis: > 1. I have servers with multiple network cards. Let's say, the management > one and production. both network cards have multiple interfaces, which I > need to bond into 803.1ad mode. Management bond has a native vlan

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-04 Thread Alexey Abramov
Hi Ryan, Ryan Sundberg writes: > Hi Alexy, are you running netplan under Guix? I would find it useful > to have a service using a netplan config, bypassing the guile-based > networking service for such advanced use cases as you mention. No, I have never tried to do this actually. Net

Re: Advanced network configuration

2022-10-03 Thread Ryan Sundberg
Hi Alexy, are you running netplan under Guix? I would find it useful to have a service using a netplan config, bypassing the guile-based networking service for such advanced use cases as you mention. Sincerely, Ryan Sundberg Principal Software Engineer Arctype Corporation Original

Advanced network configuration

2022-10-03 Thread Alexey Abramov
Hi Guix, I have a couple of questions regarding our current network configuration in Guix. With the latest changes to the static configuration, live is indeed, became easier, but I have to say that it is still insufficient to define a complete network configuration. Please check out the

FW: Guix: A most advanced operating system

2019-01-15 Thread Cook, Malcolm
FWIW: Discussion of this article https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/index.html occurring on hacker news now at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18902823

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-09-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ben, Ben Woodcroft skribis: > Anyway, to move forward I created a repo so that package recipes can > be modified to use a GCC that has been optimised for a particular > architecture. I put it out there so that it is more than just a patch > on this ML, but I'd be happy

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-09-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Dave Love skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> But that sounds similar to IFUNC in that application code would need to >> actually use hwcap info to select the right implementation at load time, >> right? > > As far as I know, it's a

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-09-01 Thread Dave Love
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> That may be the best way to handle it, but it's not widely available, >> and isn't possible generally (as far as I know), e.g. for Fortran code. >> See also below. This issue surfaced again recently in Fedora. > > Right. Do you have examples

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Dave, Dave Love skribis: > ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> To some extent, I think this is a compiler/OS/upstream issue. By that I >> mean that the best way to achieve use of extra CPU features is by using >> the “IFUNC” feature of GNU ld.so,

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:39:41AM +0800, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for > more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest > common feature set among x86_64 CPUs. That’s good for portability, but

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Woodcroft
Hi, On 21/08/17 22:23, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Guix, I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest common feature set among x86_64 CPUs. That’s good for portability, but not so good

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-23 Thread Dave Love
ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > >> I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for >> more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest >

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for > more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest > common feature set among x86_64 CPUs. That’s good for portability, bu

Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest common feature set among x86_64 CPUs. That’s good for portability, but not so good for performance. Enabling CPU features often happens

Re: [PATCH v2] gnu: wxwidgets: Enable support for their "advanced" regular expressions.

2016-06-03 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:57:11AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > From: Danny Milosavljevic <danny...@scratchpost.org> > > * wxwidgets: Enable support for their "advanced" regular expressions. > This is required by KiCad. Thank you! Applied as b37b8

[PATCH v2] gnu: wxwidgets: Enable support for their "advanced" regular expressions.

2016-05-31 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
From: Danny Milosavljevic <danny...@scratchpost.org> * wxwidgets: Enable support for their "advanced" regular expressions. This is required by KiCad. --- gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/wxw

Re: [PATCH] gnu: wxwidgets: enable advanced (!) regular expressions.

2016-05-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, some more docs about the so-called "advanced" regular expressions needed by KiCad and wxRegEx in general: http://wxd.sourceforge.net/wxWidgets-2.5.3/docs/html/wx/wx_wxregex.html The "advanced" regular expression features (on top of extended regular expressions) are: -

Re: Advanced Config Template

2015-01-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Omar Radwan toxemicsqui...@gmail.com skribis: I'm trying to install guix in a way that I have X, tor and networking on the fly right after install, but I'm having a very hard time with the declaration services. This is my config.scm (use-modules (gnu)) (operating-system (host-name Atom)

Advanced Config Template

2015-01-19 Thread Omar Radwan
I'm trying to install guix in a way that I have X, tor and networking on the fly right after install, but I'm having a very hard time with the declaration services. This is my config.scm (use-modules (gnu)) (operating-system (host-name Atom) (timezone US/Pacific) (locale en_US.UTF-8)