Recent Blog Posts

WSL images for Guix System

September 26, 2022

During my holidays some rare conditions were met: I had some free time and access to a Windows machine. Time to review this patch from Alex Griffin adding WSL support to the guix system image command.

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Distributing Guix System Pinebook Pro images

August 29, 2021

A few months ago, Enrico Schwass very generously offered to ship me a Pinebook Pro so that I can port Guix System on it. I finally took the time to take it out of the drawer, where it was quietly expecting a travel to the land of parenthesis.

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Building your own channels

April 02, 2021

Like many GNU Guix users, I'm using multiple Guix channels.

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GNU Guix continuous integration - NLNet grant

January 19, 2021

I am glad to let you know that NLNet will support my project of improving GNU Guix continuous integration system. The project will be funded through the NGI0 PET Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation, as explained here.

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Substitute server discovery

December 08, 2020

Last month I stumbled upon guile-avahi, writen by Ludovic Courtès, the creator of GNU Guix. Strangely, this package never made its way to Guix repository. With Ludovic help, I released the 0.4 version and added it to Guix.

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The Guix System image API

October 22, 2020

First, I would first like to thank people that are supporting me via Librepay, your help is much appreciated.

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Hosting a blog using only Scheme

August 31, 2020

I've discovered static blog generators using Hugo to write a travel blog a few years ago.

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