👋 Hello! GNU Guix is on @hachyderm - yay!

If you haven't heard of #gnu #guix we're a free software project that's created a hosted package manager (think homebrew or flatpak) and a GNU/Linux distribution.

GNU Guix uses the functional packaging approach pioneered by #nix and adds a user-experience and system configuration system. It uses a DSL that's based on Guile Scheme. You can use it configure your home environment, dev environments or the entire system using a declarative and transactional definition.

We hope to tell people about the project and our latest news. We'd love to engage with people around #freesoftware #guile #scheme and more general #linux topics!

Official #Guix mirror now available 👇
codeberg.org/guix/guix-mirror

(It’s just a mirror, no pull requests or issues at this point.)

guix-mirror

Mirror of GNU Guix.

^Codeberg.org

Figured out what was wrong with my implementation of Emmanuel Bourg's #kotlin #bootstrap chain (github.com/ebourg/kotlin-boots…), so now I managed to mirror the same chain, but *completely bootstrapped* (all prebuilt jars are removed from sources).

So I have a kotlin from June 2015: framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-and…

still a long way to go :D

#guix #bootstrappablebuilds

android/packages/kotlin.scm · master · Julien Lepiller / guix-android · GitLab

Experimental Guix packages for Android development (to build apps and the system itself)

^GitLab

I used to depend on the Web to look for UNICODE characters, but not anymore. Now I use my system:

1️⃣ Alt + F2

2️⃣ gnome-characters

3️⃣ Type "lock"

And that's it. Very nice.

Once they add support for searching in more languages other than English, it will be great.

#gnu #guix #gnome #unicode

As I wrote in a comment, I think we #FreeSoftware folks and #Guix in particular must address the shortcomings of traditional distros that make flatpak appear necessary. Instead we must design for practical user freedom.

The alternative is: more control for software vendors, or more power to users?

The #Guix reference card got an update!
guix.gnu.org/guix-refcard.pdf

Now features ‘guix shell’, ‘guix home’, and more.

📢 WhereIsEveryone, Guix Packaging Meetup, April 24th, 22:30 ET (UTC-4)

«This month we're rotating to use an APAC [Asia-Pacific] friendly time for our Guixers on that side of the globe.»

See more details on

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gui…

#GNU #Guix