Guix Home has most essential features ready and now requires some
real-world usage from a few more people to be sure that there are no
fundamental issues with it.
We are looking for 3-5 advanced GNU/Linux users (not necessary Guix),
who want to try `guix home` and are willing to spend some time and
effort configuring it, and in case of issues reporting them to
https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss
We will be supporting early adopters in the rde-discuss mailing list on
weekdays. Also, you can reach us on #guix IRC channel for a casual talk
or quick question, @abcdw and @yoctocell.
On `date --date="2021-04-14 15:00:00 UTC"` we plan a jitsi call, to
make sure that everyone is up and running, provide some help and/or
answer questions. Will schedule consequent calls if needed.
To participate you need to have a working installation of Guix the
package manager, and have a local checkout of the rde Git
repository[1]. Reply to the thread in rde-discuss [2] with a few
lines about you and/or your technical background and please attach the
output of running `make env-info` at the root of the rde repository to
be sure that Guix and rde are installed and everything works correctly.
See you soon,
Andrew Tropin.
Useful links:
[1] https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
[2] https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss
On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 20:21 +0300, Andrew Tropin wrote:
> Guix Home has most essential features ready and now requires some> real-world usage from a few more people to be sure that there are no> fundamental issues with it.> > We are looking for 3-5 advanced GNU/Linux users (not necessary Guix),> who want to try `guix home` and are willing to spend some time and> effort configuring it, and in case of issues reporting them to> https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss> > We will be supporting early adopters in the rde-discuss mailing list> on> weekdays. Also, you can reach us on #guix IRC channel for a casual> talk> or quick question, @abcdw and @yoctocell.> > On `date --date="2021-04-14 15:00:00 UTC"` we plan a jitsi call, to> make sure that everyone is up and running, provide some help and/or> answer questions. Will schedule consequent calls if needed.> > To participate you need to have a working installation of Guix the> package manager, and have a local checkout of the rde Git> repository[1]. Reply to the thread in rde-discuss [2] with a few> lines about you and/or your technical background and please attach> the> output of running `make env-info` at the root of the rde repository> to> be sure that Guix and rde are installed and everything works> correctly.> > See you soon,> Andrew Tropin.> > Useful links:> [1] https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde> [2] https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss>
Really Awesome :-)
Could you sign your rde channel? I am not at ease adding unsigned
channels since that's basically RCE into my system :-)
Thanks!!
> Could you sign your rde channel? I am not at ease adding unsigned> channels since that's basically RCE into my system :-)
It is not intended for use as a channel, at least yet, because
`guix home` will not work without:
export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=~/.config/guix/current/share/guile/site/3.0:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH
export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=~/.config/guix/current/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache:$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH
By "local checkout of the rde Git repository", I meant literal
`git clone` to the local file system)
Anyway, I signed the channel, the introduction is in the README. Maybe
later I'll write a guide explaining how to use it as a channel.
> Thanks!!
You are very welcome (: and thank you for motivating me to clean up and
improve things)
Re: Now on-reconfigure automatically evaluated on reconfigure
Greetings!
I am a software engineer, passioned about functional approach.
Clojure is the language of my choice, 3.5y of production experience.
Am using Ubuntu for 5y, I am more of a basic user. Some knowledge of the
shell, little knowledge of login and desktop environment managers.
#+begin_src bash
keeper@haus:~/gits/abcdw/rde$ make env-info
echo -e "`guix describe -f recutils | grep -v intro`\n\
name: rde\nurl: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde\n\
commit: `git log -n1 --format=format:'%H'`"
-e name: guix
url: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
commit: ec3b73336861eaa27f506d17fdbea573363beb84
name: rde
url: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
commit: a1562bd1170801c3825417afa7a4789e83555f89
#+end_src
> Greetings!> I am a software engineer, passioned about functional approach.> Clojure is the language of my choice, 3.5y of production experience.> Am using Ubuntu for 5y, I am more of a basic user. Some knowledge of the> shell, little knowledge of login and desktop environment managers.
Welcome on board, Andrew!)
Will send a jitsi link to this thread ~2 hours before call.
--
Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
Sending information about today's call.
Link: https://meet.jit.si/GuixHomeEarlyAdopters
Call time: `date --date="2021-04-14 15:00:00 UTC"` It's ~2.5 hours from now.
Call length: ~1-1.5 hour
Agenda:
- Greetings and meetings.
- Introduction to guix home.
- Learning cli basics.
- Setting up basic configuration.
- Questions and troubleshooting.
Prepare you guix, by the end of the day we should have `guix home`
installed and configured!)
See you in a bit.
Hello!
I am a software engineer, have been using Linux for about 6 years, tried
different distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Crux, Void). I consider myself an
experienced user.
Thank you everyone for participating! Quite a lot of people (:
Seems almost everyone got up and running. Post your question to
rde-discuss ML, send your patches to rde-devel.
If we get some frequently asked questions to discuss, some issues or
major updates, we can schedule another call. Just let me know)
Notes from the call:
https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/master/notes/20210414112007-early_adopters_briefing.org