On Sun,  1 Apr 2018 14:22:59 +0200
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Guix,
> 
> As discussed at FOSDEM, it is clear that The Shepherd does not have
> what it takes to boot a modern Linux system.  While it works today,
> adding bootloader, DNS server, NTP client, syslog, udev, seat
> management, dishwasher, hardware database, network management and
> other essential PID 1 features is going to take too much effort and
> duplicate work.
> 
> Meanwhile, GuixSD keeps drifting away from other distributions.  This
> patch is the first of many in order to gain feature parity with the
> modern GNU/Linux world.  2018 is surely the year of the GuixSD
> desktop!

Hi Marius,

I have missed that discussion at FOSDEM, but it sounds great!

Good to know about that systemd, today I tried to pack a program that
urgently needs the '/etc/os-release' file and I didn't know how to get
that in. But systemd is the "owner" of that file and so we get it for
free now. Cool (This time it's free as in beer).

Here is a great article about that file:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/os-release.html

So, yeah, finally GuixSD is no longer one of those small ones, but a
big player in distributions.

I'm only a bit disappointed that you couldn't get that in a bit earlier
than April 1, as I used the holidays to brainwash my head with the
services documentation. I'm so into the topic now that I painted all my
easter eggs full with parenthesis, "#~" and "#$" and dragged colored
strings between them building a big Easter-DAG, and now I should forget
about all of that? Well, OK, if it is for the future of GuixSD, I can
live with that.

Björn