[nmglug] Guix

[Elais Player]

Hello hello,

I use guix on both my personal desktop and a NAS, though I haven't tried running the Hurd in a vm. That being said I don't believe the Hurd actually runs on bare metal, and iirc it only runs in a vm. Another thing to consider when trying to install guix is that the official channel only supports the linux-libre kernel and I think there's something fundamentally broken that means you will not be able to run linux-libre on an AMD ryzen processor. I've had success running linux-libre on a rockpro64 but I wouldn't recommend that being your first attempt at installing it.

Let me know if you have any specific questions, I'm no expert but I've used Guix in anger enough to be a guiding hand.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, at 18:43, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> Howdy
> 
> Has anyone run Guix? I discovered it looking for Gnu Hurd distros. There aren't many and they don't work but Guix has a linux kernel or Guix running on Hurd. I downloaded the Hurd version and got a live qcow image that I could run on Qemu but that I couldn't install. I tried repeatedly but couldn't even get the Hurd version running again. I gave up and downloaded the .iso for Guix/linux. It is now downloading many packages in a VBox VM. The .iso wouldn't finish installing with Qemu, my preference, so I bailed on that.
> 
> Anyway I thought some might find it interesting and maybe someone can get the Hurd version up and running. (It ran fine the first time and I liked what I saw)
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