#guix — Public Fediverse posts

Lio Novelli and Jurij Podgoršek who run a tech-critical show on a Slovenian student radio station interviewed me and this was aired a couple of days ago:
https://radiostudent.si/druzba/tehno-klistir/zavzemanje-za-clovesko-obrt

(Interview starts at 23:22.)

The main topic is #Guix, LLMs, and the Guix Consensus Document process.

On #Guix if you're trying migrate to the non-root guix-daemon on a foreign OS, should you remove --build-users-group from the ExecStart?

I manually did all of the stuff suggested in https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Daemon-Running-Without-Privileges
on a system that previously had guix 1.4.0 installed.

And I was getting the "guix pull: error: cannot kill processes for uid `999': failed with exit code 1" error. Most of the bugs for that error were about problems with apparmor, but I wasn't seeing any apparmor error messages.

Then I realized that the documentation about setting up the build-users-group was before "Daemon-Running-Wihtout-Privileges" and even though the example guix-daemon.service has ExecStart... --build-users-group and User=guix-daemon, maybe it should only have one or the other.

After removing the --build-users-group guix pull worked.

Meet lambdock 🐑
Desktop Dock that is lightweight, hyper-hackable and combines GTK4/C performance with GNU Guile Scheme!

• Wayland window tracking & popover HUDs
• Live socket REPL & hot-reloading
• Opt-in fisheye hover magnification
• Dynamic widgets (RAM, CPU, clock)
• Multi-dock & multi-monitor support
• Guix, Nix, openSUSE & Debian support

Works on Sway, Hyprland, Niri, River, KDE & more.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/jjba23/lambdock

#Linux #Wayland #Guile #Scheme #GTK4 #Lisp #C #GTK #Meson #Guix #Niri

Fixed "trurl" (https://github.com/curl/trurl) package build in GNU Guix:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/53d0ba4172b053a0d297518ff0984137b7b21976

#guix #guix_patches

Updated five packages in GNU Guix:
0cc8f41142a gnu: slock: Update to 1.7.
81f43dc7ce3 gnu: snooze: Update to 0.6.
a3b3eb39f7b gnu: nebula: Update to 1.11.0.
25f9e4816cd gnu: nethogs: Update to 0.9.0.
77f7b4c5cf5 gnu: wireproxy: Update to 1.1.3.

#guix #guix_patches

@mcc Seems like it's time to port #guix to Free- or NetBSD. ;-)

600+ computer science papers. Only 40% of their software actually installs.
On August 21, Simon Tournier presents at RRPR 2026:
📄 "Reproducible computational environment: Archiving and beyond"
https://tc22-team.github.io/rrpr2026/program.html
#Guix #ResearchSoftware #Reproducibility #OpenScience #SoftwareHeritage

Updated four packages in GNU Guix:
0317505fce3 gnu: fswatch: Update to 1.22.0.
4b57cbce7c4 gnu: ittapi: Update to 3.28.2.
b151eb293ad gnu: nanomsg: Update to 1.2.4.
fef22e69aa0 gnu: atop: Update to 2.13.0.

#guix #guix_patches

Some talk about a perceived pressure to not disapprove a GCD.

Of course there’s pressure: disapproving is sending two months of work by many people to the trash.

But here’s the thing: anyone who tried and failed to satisfactorily amend the proposal can disapprove. It’s extremely powerful! And with great power comes great responsibility.

#Guix

A moment so say thank you to people who make the open source tools/software that makes my life so much better!

#guix
#emacs
#guile
#itchio
#zerok
#luanti
#koreader
#mindustry

Happy we got this far with GCD 008: many contributions by people from very different opinions, leading to a compromise document that the majority of team members either supported or deemed acceptable.

As @csantosb put it, that’s a sign of maturity of the community.

🧵

#Guix

Got #guix to run on my laptop. I feel powerful.

It's sad guix still hasn't been fixed. You'd think a bug that causes the inability to update it would be a number one concern.

#guix

Tried again to run "guix pull" on Mlik-V Jupiter, "linux-libre-headers" seems to be fixed, but now "python-minimal" fails:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/9898#issuecomment-20628308

#riscv #guix

Du coup j'en ai profité pour rajouter meshcore-cli dans #guix. https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/10348

Thanks @hako for providing the Testament #Guix Live ISOs! I was able to install Guix with a vanilla linux kernel, plus I got to see how niri+noctalia would look like.

https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament/src/branch/trunk/config/live