From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dirk Scheuring Subject: Re: A secure multimedia workstation Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:33:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87y4o9xqts.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsCr-0003C3-Rc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:33:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsCn-0002Bm-SR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:33:09 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::22a]:53776) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKsCn-0002Ae-Mm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:33:05 -0500 Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id q59so19614137wes.1 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:33:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87y4o9xqts.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludo wrote: > Ideally, it would boil down to preparing a custom 'operating-system' declaration-with all the services and packages of interest ready to use-that users would inherit from to further customize things. Yes, that would be the idea. You here and and your relatives (1) are way further up the curve, of course, so I'm greatly encouraged by getting what seems to be a "sounds reasonable" reply from you. This thing has just migrated from the "crazy fantasy" to the "important side project" stage for me. > At this point the Guix System Distribution is still very much for hackers rather than newcomers, but I would love to see projects like this one grow. I reckon that it will take me some years to learn how to build what I can now only describe, but I also know why I want to spend the time: I plan to use computers for decades more; I figured out that most of my problems with them might be solvable by freedom, statelessness, and homoiconicity; and Guix offers exactly these features. This makes it seem worth the investment. > Thanks for your interest. Thanks for your work. Thanks to all of you here. I believe that Guix matters, so carry on, please. Dirk (1) https://www.domenkozar.com/2014/03/11/why-puppet-chef-ansible-arent-good-enough-and-we-can-do-better/