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From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:44:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322144404.1636b9cf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dm29iog.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:19:11 +0100
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> 
> > Ultimately, I gave up.  In my opinion, Guix has never achieved
> > usability as a desktop system on non-Intel systems.  Therefore, the
> > Guix community is unable to attract many developers who want a
> > distro that supports non-Intel systems well.  Our community has
> > thus become dominated by Intel users, and there's unsufficient
> > political will to adopt policies that would enable us to provide a
> > usable system for non-Intel users.  
> 
> A practical problem that’s been mentioned repeatedly is lack of
> ci.guix hardware for non-Intel architectures: please everyone,
> consider helping the project find either sponsors or companies that
> sell fitting hardware, along with a plan to host it and maintain it
> over time!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

What about a Liberapay for Guix? Could also be used to pay developers.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-16 11:10 [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-16 11:17 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2021-03-16 11:27   ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-16 19:15 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-16 23:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-16 23:49   ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-17 11:54     ` Guix moving too fast? zimoun
2021-03-17  6:07   ` [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-17  6:21   ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-20 11:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-22 13:44     ` raingloom [this message]
2021-03-23 16:22       ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-23 23:53         ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-23 17:56       ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 22:54       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-24 19:51         ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-24 20:24           ` Vincent Legoll
2021-03-24 20:32             ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-24 20:55             ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-25 14:22           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-03-25 18:19             ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-30  8:42           ` Buying AArch64 hardware? Ludovic Courtès

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