From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIEjDtmZsaW5n?= Subject: Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 18:17:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20181009181740.1f88bbf2@alma-ubu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/J4WV8RydA1.E9cde2O_B3Zf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9uhe-0001Ot-UK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:17:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9uhb-0003Iw-MD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:17:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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" To: Laura Lazzati Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de --Sig_/J4WV8RydA1.E9cde2O_B3Zf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Laura, On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 10:08:44 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi everyone! >=20 > 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. 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. =20 > 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.=20 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. Bj=C3=B6rn --Sig_/J4WV8RydA1.E9cde2O_B3Zf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlu81KUACgkQvyhstlk+X/1lNgCbB/UjT9I2xGiphTP80hQFBJU+ jjwAn251EwTad9Wkpqp3r5ZfnVr49pk2 =pkLh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/J4WV8RydA1.E9cde2O_B3Zf--