These writeups for the 2024 #Guix User and Contributor Survey are a really exemplary view into #FOSS community and project management in general, regardless of which corner of this world you work in.

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-2/

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-3/

I couldn't do it. I went back to #nixos #guix is lovely in premise. I like the idea of a general purpose language, especially #scheme driving it, but the documentation is fucking TERRIBLE! And I already have a robust nixos config. Configuring the damned thing was keeping me away from doing shit.

Hey #Guix! The Guix Consensus Document (GCD) about « Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to #Codeberg » will close soon!

The last version:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-consensus-documents.git/tree/002-codeberg.md

Discussion: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76503

Drop a comment: mailto:76503@debbugs.gnu.org

Thanks all the participants and @civodul for driving; a friendly debate even on a touchy topic = a nice outcome!

Was messing about in Debian land over the weekend, and it's made me really appreciate some #Guix stuff:

- Guix packages get rebuilt when their dependencies change. Was trying to use the arm64 Guix .deb, and it doesn't work, spewing errors about incompatible bytecode. That wouldn't happen on Guix, because it'd get rebuilt if Guile changed.

- Building any package in Guix is as simple as `guix build package`. Trying to rebuild the .deb to fix the first problem required a ton of screwing around and manually installing stuff on the system including installing devscripts to run a program to make a fake package with build-deps, which you then install (or in my case, install, find that didn't work, uninstall, then reinstall a different way) to get the environment to build the thing.

Guix ain't perfect, but these problems simply don't exist there.

Today...and I trying to get #guix on my laptop....again. I like the premise of #nixos, and having used for an extended time, it really has been lovely. But I HATE the Nix language. HATE IT! it's like a weird crackhead language. And I'm finding I'm doing more with Scheme and Clojure these days.

Tried the #GUIX package manager on my #Ubuntu #Linux laptop. Nice. A few issues:
* Not as many apps as the snap store
* Does not add apps to your Gnome menus unless you run GUIX OS. That is a non-starter for me

It's a 2023 blog post, but I'm just now learning about this exciting effort to port GNU #Shepherd to #SpritelyGoblins, turning the init system of #Guix into a distributed systems daemon, which could provide functionality along the lines of Kubernetes. How cool! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-nlnet-grants-december-2023.html

If you’re into #ReproducibleResearch & #OpenScience, don’t miss this MOOC
https://scholar.social/@khinsen/114314471616473600

Lots of practical tools for computational reproducibility, including the unequaled #Guix :-), all this brought to you by experts in the field, starting with @khinsen.

The #guile #lsp server just landed to #guix.

https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-mirror/commit/ed325ce878

guix install guile-lsp-server

Happy hacking !

Since I got commit access to #Guix in January, I've made it a habit to spend some time on Saturday morning reviewing and pushing patches others have contributed. Today, I pushed the 100th.

Thanks to all the folks contributing and reviewing!

#guix as an immutable, transactional operating system

https://eu-os.gitlab.io/faq#eu-project

I was installing a program to my android device and realized how much I appreciate the way Guix packages software. It contains only bootstrapable Freedom and Privacy respecting programs and libraries.

It's like a Quality mark: If the package in the repo I'm pretty sure that it's built from source code, it has no blobs, no telemetry and no backdoors. There is no man-in-the-middle in my supply chain.

https://guix.gnu.org/

Mi #viernesdeescritorio con #gnu #guix ejecutando varios progrmas como la #terminal, #inkscape, #librewolf, #gajim y el administrador de archivos de #Gnome sobre #xorg

No olviden que pueden ver este toot y muchos mas en:
https://libretics.org/viernesdeescritorio/