Christopher Baines @cbaines@octodon.social

Happy 22nd of February... #meme

Good progress installing #GNU #Guix on the #pinebook pro -- https://joyofsource.com/guix-system-on-the-pinebook-pro.html

#terminalphase live stream starting in 5 minutes! https://www.youtube.com/c/ChristopherWebber/live

Guix officially is my preferred GNU/Linux distribution.

Cool package manager. Great docs. Expressive Scheme API. Easy to write new packages. Super friendly community.

I wish more people used and contributed to Guix.

This week I am moving all of my web, git, and email servers from #debian to #guix. I may even blog about the experience. I may even find the motivation to write a stack script to standup a #linode with guix automatically.

Developer-driven software distribution is a bad idea, which is why I dislike things like Flatpak.

Having distro maintainers involved in the process and installing your software from a free software distribution like Debian or FreeBSD is a much better distribution of power. The packages can be tuned to suit their environment without the developer having to repackage it for every distro, and the distro maintainers can keep out anti-features like telemetry and advertising.

The middleman may seem annoying to developers, but embrace the model and it'll work for you. Landing packages in your favorite distro isn't actually that hard, and the rest of the distros will follow. If you're an end-user who wants to see some software available for your distro, look into packaging and volunteer - it's easy.

Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-guix-a-tutorial/

Use Guix for dev-ops!

@dthompson and I co-mentored @jakob this summer. He did amazing work! Really excited to use it myself!