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There are some relatively widespread WiFi chipsets for which free firmware is available: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Hardware-Cons... Unfortunately, it's hard to…

On the same topic, check out this how-to on software development with Guix from the Cookbook (author here): https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Software-Developm... The idea…

Shameless plug but probably relevant in the context of supply chain security: https://programming-journal.org/2023/7/1/

(Author here.) I'm biased but I do think that the blending between Guix and Shepherd is unique and supports a level of integration beyond what's usually achieved in distros. The se…

Yes, and it's not an academic exercise: it's being used in Guix (together with related projects such as stage0, M2-Planet, and Gash) to build everything from source starting from a…

Shepherd takes a service graph as input. The `herd graph` command gives a GraphViz representation of that graph: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Jump-...

To be clear, I think Nix (like Guix) signs its pre-built binaries ("substitutes"). However, only Guix has signed commits in its repository (the repo contains package definitions) a…

There's nothing to prevent multiple services from using the same port at this stage. For files in /etc, the "etc" service should detect that the same file appears more than once an…

The "service" mechanism in Guix System is designed in part as a reaction against those the NixOS module design you're describing: I think the ambient authority, free-style extensio…

I believe the use of Guix channels shown in the article is comparable to Flakes.

Good point. It's telling that many Nix vs. Guix discussions focus on three topics: DSL, popularity, and non-free packages. Few people talk about package quality control even though…

One thing that's often overlooked with Nix (the language) is that it does not let you define new data types. For example, there's no "package" type in Nix and Nixpkgs; instead ther…

Well, with more than 23K packages, it's fair to say that Guix can satisfy the needs of many people, too. A lot of programming languages are pretty well represented!

Guix channels (not to be confused with Nix channels) let you turn a Git repo into a package collection: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Channels.html I guess it serv…

On top of that, one can use Guix from the comfort of Emacs: guix install emacs-guix The Emacs interface includes Magit-style popup menus, lets you install/remove/upgrade/browse pac…

Speaking of Guix and dotfiles, you may like Guix Home, a tool to manage one's "home environment": to deploy software and associated config files. https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/…

In the same spirit but in the form of a readily-usable command (rather than a service), 'guix pack' can produce application bundles in a reproducible fashion, in the Docker format …

Guix System uses Linux as its kernel, so no driver "is GNU", whatever that means. The choice to use the Shepherd rather than systemd is motivated by a vision that we can get better…

Grafts in Guix support this use case: you know you're providing an ABI-compatible package replacement and don't want to rebuild everything that depends on it: https://guix.gnu.org/…

As with Debian, wifi devices are about the only thing you might have "troubles" with when opting for Linux-libre: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerat...

The build farm is set up to build substitutes for a selection of x86_64 micro-architectures, as the article mentions. If you tune for one of them, you'll get substitutes and won't …

Guix is dedicated to ensuring user freedom. It doesn't provide non-free software so that users can make informed choices: they might choose to use third-party channels that provide…

"guix describe" and "guix time-machine" make it rather easy to pin a Guix revision (and thus the whole package set) and to restore it anytime: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_n…