Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

["Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>]

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Hello Laura,

Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt.
10., Sze 18:41):

> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 1:17 PM Björn Höfling
> <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Laura,
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:08:44 -0300
> > Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing
> > > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let
> > > you know
> >
> > This is exactly the way to go! It's good to hear where you stay, what
> > you tried, where you succeeded, where you got stuck. If you get stuck,
> > tell us about the paths you already tried out and why you don't get
> > further alone.
> >
> Sorry for being absent for a day. After updating and upgrading my
> computer, I am stuck trying to see why the sound stopped working. Yes,
> this kind of thinks happen but just now?
>

No worries, one day off is perfectly ok, however if you did not get an
answer in 3 or 4 days, then please contact us, since in that case there is
some communications mistake.
Last time losing sound happened to me after a dist-upgrade in ubuntu, and
turned out, that the pulseaudio package shipped with a configuration that
was not compatible with the version of the binaries supplied. I ran it in
the foreground, and in the startup messages or in the log I found that it
could not parse the config. It can be something entirely different though.
I hope this helps.

>
> > One thing that was today on the Outreachy mentors-mailinglist: If you
> > finally made a contribution, please go directly on the Outreachy
> > project page, select the Guix project and formally record your
> > contributions. That's important to us and for the whole Outreachy
> > project to see who/how many applicants are possible candidates for a
> > project.
> >
> >
> > > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i
> > > ran some basic commands.
> > >  I am trying to install GuixSD over that VM too and on bare metal -
> > > don't know if this two steps are necessary, but looking at the tasks
> > > for Outreachy one items says that I will be doing documentation for
> > > it.
> >
> > Concerning bare metal: Guix uses 100% Free Software und thus uses the
> > libre kernel, not the normal vanilla kernel. That means some binaries
> > included in the vanilla kernel are stripped off. Hickups might occur,
> > especially with Network, WLAN and Graphics, compared to Ubuntu.
> >
> I thought that by installing bare metal ment installing it on a VM
> without any operating system. I mean, putting the ISO there. I only
> have one retro PC available with no OS where I could be trying that -
> it is like 13 years old, and it is not a laptop.
>

It is ok to skip that all together, a VM install is more than enough for
now.

> As always before installing a new OS, make backups of your data and
> > configurations on that machine!
> >
> > > 1) should I write, at least for myself, the problems I've been
> > > encountering in the whole process of doing everything?
> >
> > Yes, very good! I do that for myself too. It leads to good, reproducible
> > bug reports, bug fixes, documentation fixes, blog entries and could also
> > be used as a starting point for a screenplay for the videos.
> Love doing this kind of things.
> >
> > Björn
>
Best regards,
g_bor

>

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