From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Guix website Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:18:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20151230111841.GA12100@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEEmP-0000BB-KU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:18:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEEmL-0007I0-K5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:18:57 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:50862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aEEmL-0007Hm-EM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:18:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline 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: Ben Woodcroft Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" I just had a look at the Guix website and it appears to advertise liberating, dependable and hackable. Now I am not going to say this is bad, it appeals to *me*, but it does address hackers more than system administrators who ought to switch to GNU Guix. The man who wrote this http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html should have mentioned Guix. Right? So, what can we change to attract the right crowd? I strongly suggest to weigh in on 'reproducible software deployment', security and certification. What do you think? Can we first and foremost pitch reproducibility? More and more people will start to understand the binary installation problem and look for *real* solutions that can handle complexity. They will come to us and tell their *hackers* to look into it ;) Pj. (PS Thanks Dave for the link).