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/

Finally got somewhere with my #guix rubygems channel! Given a Gemfile lock to run a Sinatra project, I can reliably turn that (automatically) into a working manifest, and I can pin the versions to whatever I want!

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!

I don't recall #guix having so many contributions every week the last time I ran it on my personal machine. Over a thousand since my last pull! Incredible.

@ekaitz_zarraga
Interesting thoughts, as always, about empty speechs. Appreciate your view about the latest exchanges in #guix lists.

Keep on ! I really like this format, hopefully more people get inspiration out of it.

https://thoughts.elenq.tech/

Paris: Guix@Paris, Le jeudi 17 avril 2025 de 19h00 à 22h00. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/32363 #guix #guile #logicielsLibres #rencontreMensuelle

Do you think that making #Guix slow helps in slow science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_science

Okay. #guix is a lil different but I like it! I got ungoogled-chromium installed (so @rms doesn't have a complete come-apart), so that's good. I can do do shit. Stumpwm is going be tons of fun though! I'm tell y'all those #arch boys can make dog shit look gorgeous. There are some really cool nord-ish stump rices. #linux

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

Bumped + fixed #gpaste (#gnome #clipboard manager) build in #guix. I still use gnome although planning to switch to #sway > 1.5 years already. And this is the one of most useful packages/extensions for me out there in gnome ecosystem
Everything is just stolen from nixpkgs

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=77780

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

Updated "dico" (https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/dico/) in GNU Guix to the version 2.12:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=a33e152f2eb9927be5942b00bdaaecba737c650f