Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hello!

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> skribis:

> First, let's dive right into a big one: the popular VSCodium editor. This is a freely licensed build of VS Code: <https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#why-does-this-exist>
>
> This comes in AppImage format. Downloading it and making it executable (with a 'chmod +x') I can run it in a container as
>
> guix shell -CNF -D ungoogled-chromium gcc:lib \
>      --preserve='^DISPLAY$' --preserve='^XAUTHORITY$' --share=$XAUTHORITY \
>      --preserve='^DBUS_' --expose=/var/run/dbus \
>      --expose=/sys/dev --expose=/sys/devices --expose=/dev/dri \
>      -- ./VSCodium-1.74.0.22342.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run

The code in that AppImage is free software, right?

> Another example is to get the latest nightly builds of Rust, via <https://rustup.rs/>

That’s a nice one too!

> Happy to try other examples and to hear feedback on these!

I think these are two good examples, likely to correspond to the kind of
thing people may want to try.

>> Actually you can use or get inspiration from this animated GIF if you
>> like:
>>
>>   <https://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/tmp/guix-shell-fhs.gif>
>>
>
> Either I forgot to save this or wasn't able to access it before, and can't access it now.

Yeah, the TLS setup on that machine is broken, so you’d have to “Accept
the risk and continue”; I sent you a copy off-list.

If we release on Monday, it would be great to have it published…
tomorrow (Friday).  Otherwise next Friday maybe?

Thanks!

Ludo’.