janneke @janneke@octodon.social

Very interesting overview over "Open Source in Africa" by Shedrack Akintayo:

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/c8ecd930-e365-4379-9fa4-a1e8f21239f3

The developer communities I'm part of ar mostly European and North American and it's really seldom I see developers from Africa.

When I saw the “Open Letter to Apache #OpenOffice” by #LibreOffice developers, I felt for them:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/

Two days later, this “answer” suggests that #Apache is actively trying to harm the development of a free “office suite”:
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-celebrates3

Shame.

I worked a bit on my #guile netlink implementation yesterday and added the RTM_*ADDR types for rtnetlink. This was enough for me to write some code that adds an IP address (v4 or v6) to an interface! The goal is to use it to replace the current static-networking-service-type in #guix as it currently only supports ipv4. You can find the code here:

https://git.lepiller.eu/guile-netlink

and I have a manual at https://git.lepiller.eu/guile-netlink/manual/manual.html

Hey look, the guide that Joshua Branson and I wrote about how to run Guix on a Linode server is up on the Guix blog! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-guix-system-on-a-linode-server/

Actually made it through a pretty big refactor of how the Guix Data Service handles database connections for HTTP requests: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/data-service.git/commit/?id=c3c9c07f9a208633882a21004d30c5ee29026cb1

There should be less chance of the server being slow handling requests now, and some requests should even be faster due to extra parallelism.

I'm pretty sure I must have broken something somewhere though...

I've been playing with childhurds in #Guix (👍 @janneke!) but of course, I'd only test it in 'guix system vm'.

So we have #GNU #Hurd in a box, in #Guix in a box, on top of #Guix System. Turtles all the way down...

(Pictured: vncviewer and SSH client connected to the #childhurd.)

#Guix ‘--with-input’, ‘--with-branch’, ‘--with-grafts’, etc. to apply recursively even to implicit inputs:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43578

It was surprisingly difficult to pull this one off!

Setting Up Mail in Guix System Part 1 https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/ceca4919-8974-4799-a6da-65493d9c0819

Look what I have. Thanks to guix devs I can use gnu hurd in virtual machine that starts with my system.

See hurd-vm-service-type

Nature reports on the ReScience Ten Years #Reproducibility Challenge:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7

Now, when speaking about #GNU #Guix, you can say: “as seen in Nature.”

#reproducible #research

The Call for Proposals for EmacsConf 2020 is now open! Go check it out and come hang out with us on #emacsconf on freenode.

https://emacsconf.org/2020/cfp/

@wizzwizz4 @codesections This description is correct.

You may be interested in the work being done in GNU Mes and Guix, which does bootstrap GCC, among most other things; here's a recent blog post by @janneke

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/

DistroTube posted a nice review of #GNU #Guix System covering system installation, booting into #Xfce, package installation, and rollback.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3YF-ihjUg

The darker part of it is the terrible bandwidth causing every operation to take ages.

\o/ First step of the integration of my #maven-build-system into #guix done. I now install maven and its dependencies in a maven repository. Next steps are adding the basic maven plugins, and the maven-build-system itself, then I'll send all these patches for review :)

My current work is available on this branch:

https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix/-/tree/wip-maven-build-system

“Securing updates”: new post on the long ride towards authenticated #Git checkouts for '#guix pull'.

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/securing-updates/

#GNU #Guix #Git #OpenPGP #security

Nice short (~16m) talk on build system security – trusting trust attacks, reproducible builds & bootstrappable builds.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=I2iShmUTEl8

@cwebber @janneke I also liked @mala's comment on HN about how Guix brings the GNU system together:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23531557

Everyone in and around Guix is doing amazing work, and I'm proud of that.