thanks all - for answers to recent questions
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory
Thanks Chris,
A couple of follow-ups:
On 5/9/19 12:39 PM, Christopher Baines wrote:
1: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/talks
There's also two talks [2] which I've given in the past on Guix, they're
a few years old, but I think most of the material is still correct.
Ok... a few follow-on questions (in-line):
On 5/9/19 1:03 PM, Christopher Baines wrote:
Miles Fidelman writes:
The GUIX documentation is great when it comes to installing GUIX, and
then installing packaged software.
It's not so clear on how do install software that isn't in the package
hole -
particularly those of us who run Linux in production server environments
that have been heavily customized over the years. GUIX seems to be
reaching a maturity level where it can be considered for production use
- but there's an awful paucity of information that might let us evaluate it.
M
the only folks who have
the big picture. Please share!
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab
ks, record the sequence of
steps that occur "towards the end." Then work through the configuration
of each of those steps, in turn, for the machine that doesn't work.
(Hunch: There's a subtle mismatch between configuration and the
underlying hardware.)
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, th
