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This is extremely neat but the name "gash" is... a poor choice. Gory in standard English, worse as a slang term
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It's part of GNU [0] (which in itself is a community), but GNU as a whole is additionally funded in part by the FSF [1] ; And then as always: volunteers. I suspect since Guix heavily utilizes Lisp quite a few Emacs lovers might watch Guix closely and even contribute ; students might pick GNU projects as part of a thesis et cetera. And I am unsure how 'active' development is, I have no insight, but it has been in exis…
I think the comparison to nix is quite unfair, since it's more than twice as old (~7 years vs ~16 years).
Who funds Guix development? This this one of those experimental/hobby/academic projects? I never hear anything about Guix outside of HN or F/OSS boards (and even then, very little). How does it continue?
It's part of GNU [0] (which in itself is a community), but GNU as a whole is additionally funded in part by the FSF [1] ; And then as always: volunteers. I suspect since Guix heavily utilizes Lisp quite a few Emacs lovers might watch Guix closely and even contribute ; students might pick GNU projects as part of a thesis et cetera. And I am unsure how 'active' development is, I have no insight, but it has been in exis…
Here is their git repository: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix
Here is the web interface to their issues and patches mailing list: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/
As you can see although the project is less popular, it is no less actively developed and you can easily find system configurations by searching git{hub,lab}.
This is extremely neat but the name "gash" is... a poor choice. Gory in standard English, worse as a slang term
Why do you pronounce it like that, though? I pronounce it like "geesh" or "guish" or "guiche" (not sure how to write it phonetically). It is just the Catalan word for "chalk".
This is extremely neat but the name "gash" is... a poor choice. Gory in standard English, worse as a slang term
Why do you pronounce it like that, though? I pronounce it like "geesh" or "guish" or "guiche" (not sure how to write it phonetically). It is just the Catalan word for "chalk".
I see that guix is a declarative package manager like nix. Where does it have a leg up over nix? And how's the GUI integration with KDE and gnome? Is there a backend for KDE Discover or the Gnome Software Center? Finally, I see that installation goes over a "curl | bash", which imo is a pretty insecure method of installation. I can understand why such an insecure method exists (so many different ways of installing so…
On the other hand I believe the package repo for Nix is much more comprehensive and kept more up to date.
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Why do you pronounce it like that, though? I pronounce it like "geesh" or "guish" or "guiche" (not sure how to write it phonetically). It is just the Catalan word for "chalk".
Not the name of the project (which is pronounced 'geeks') but the implementation of the shell and coreutils, as from the text in the article. This implementation is called 'Gash'.
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It's part of GNU [0] (which in itself is a community), but GNU as a whole is additionally funded in part by the FSF [1] ; And then as always: volunteers. I suspect since Guix heavily utilizes Lisp quite a few Emacs lovers might watch Guix closely and even contribute ; students might pick GNU projects as part of a thesis et cetera. And I am unsure how 'active' development is, I have no insight, but it has been in exis…
In GNU fashion they're using savannah mailing lists and email patches so to those who are comfortable with git{hub,lab} it's slightly less familiar. Here is their git repository: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix Here is the web interface to their issues and patches mailing list: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/ As you can see although the project is less popular, it is no less actively developed and you can easily…
'GNU Guix is a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system that respects user freedom.'[0]
NixOS is developed using the MIT license and does seem to just want things to work.
I am bringing this up purely as a question, is that fear justified or am I missing something? Would be glad for a take on this from someone who knows more.
This is extremely neat but the name "gash" is... a poor choice. Gory in standard English, worse as a slang term
Why do you pronounce it like that, though? I pronounce it like "geesh" or "guish" or "guiche" (not sure how to write it phonetically). It is just the Catalan word for "chalk".