Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-23 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:01:52 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Hello! > > > > Gammel Holte skribis: > > > >> I would like to draw your attention to new Rockchip ARM machines (e.g. Asus > >> C201). These are very

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:32:28AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think many of us are interested in having GuixSD on those devices. Absolutely! OpenWRT runs MIPS routers and replacing those eventually with Guix support would be great. > Mark recently ported GuixSD to mips, which allowed him

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Gammel Holte skribis: > I would like to draw your attention to new Rockchip ARM machines (e.g. Asus > C201). These are very cheap, easy to reflash and can be run without any > blobs (except 3D acceleration, unless the Lima driver gets finished). They > don't even

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015, at 17:51, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Along these lines, it might be interesting if we can get more of the >> guix "core" packages in Guix paired down in size. It's unlikely that >> I'm going to be building packages on a

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-16 Thread Gammel Holte
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think many of us are interested in having GuixSD on those devices. > > Mark recently ported GuixSD to mips, which allowed him to identify > architecture-specific assumptions need to be addressed. That was an > important

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-16 Thread Gammel Holte
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Christopher Allan Webber < cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > Along these lines, it might be interesting if we can get more of the > guix "core" packages in Guix paired down in size. It's unlikely that > I'm going to be building packages on a neo900 or etc, but I

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > Gammel Holte skribis: > >> I would like to draw your attention to new Rockchip ARM machines (e.g. Asus >> C201). These are very cheap, easy to reflash and can be run without any >> blobs (except 3D acceleration, unless

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-15 Thread Daniel Pimentel
Great! I have one thinkpad x60 and x200t with GuixSD, in soon I'll try use libreboot. -- Daniel Pimentel (d4n1 3:)

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015, at 17:51, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Along these lines, it might be interesting if we can get more of the > guix "core" packages in Guix paired down in size. It's unlikely that > I'm going to be building packages on a neo900 or etc, but I might want > all my small

GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-15 Thread Gammel Holte
Hello everyone, as a user, I've joined Guix due to technical reasons (functional package management in Scheme) and focus on freedom (linux-libre kernel, etc). I guess many people here share these values. Freedom ultimately depends on the underlying hardware too. My goal is to do all my computing

Re: GuixSD and free hardware

2015-10-15 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Gammel Holte writes: > Hello everyone, > > as a user, I've joined Guix due to technical reasons (functional package > management in Scheme) and focus on freedom (linux-libre kernel, etc). I > guess many people here share these values. > > Freedom ultimately depends on the underlying hardware too.