guix home: Call for Early Adopters

guix home: Call for Early Adopters

[Andrew Tropin]

Guix Home has most essential features ready and now requires some
real-world usage from a few more people to be sure that there are no
fundamental issues with it.

We are looking for 3-5 advanced GNU/Linux users (not necessary Guix),
who want to try `guix home` and are willing to spend some time and
effort configuring it, and in case of issues reporting them to
https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss

We will be supporting early adopters in the rde-discuss mailing list on
weekdays.  Also, you can reach us on #guix IRC channel for a casual talk
or quick question, @abcdw and @yoctocell.

On `date --date="2021-04-14 15:00:00 UTC"` we plan a jitsi call, to
make sure that everyone is up and running, provide some help and/or
answer questions.  Will schedule consequent calls if needed.

To participate you need to have a working installation of Guix the
package manager, and have a local checkout of the rde Git
repository[1].  Reply to the thread in rde-discuss [2] with a few
lines about you and/or your technical background and please attach the
output of running `make env-info` at the root of the rde repository to
be sure that Guix and rde are installed and everything works correctly.

See you soon,
Andrew Tropin.

Useful links:
[1] https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
[2] https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss

Re: guix home: Call for Early Adopters

[Léo Le Bouter]

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On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 20:21 +0300, Andrew Tropin wrote:
> Guix Home has most essential features ready and now requires some
> real-world usage from a few more people to be sure that there are no
> fundamental issues with it.
> 
> We are looking for 3-5 advanced GNU/Linux users (not necessary Guix),
> who want to try `guix home` and are willing to spend some time and
> effort configuring it, and in case of issues reporting them to
> https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss
> 
> We will be supporting early adopters in the rde-discuss mailing list
> on
> weekdays.  Also, you can reach us on #guix IRC channel for a casual
> talk
> or quick question, @abcdw and @yoctocell.
> 
> On `date --date="2021-04-14 15:00:00 UTC"` we plan a jitsi call, to
> make sure that everyone is up and running, provide some help and/or
> answer questions.  Will schedule consequent calls if needed.
> 
> To participate you need to have a working installation of Guix the
> package manager, and have a local checkout of the rde Git
> repository[1].  Reply to the thread in rde-discuss [2] with a few
> lines about you and/or your technical background and please attach
> the
> output of running `make env-info` at the root of the rde repository
> to
> be sure that Guix and rde are installed and everything works
> correctly.
> 
> See you soon,
> Andrew Tropin.
> 
> Useful links:
> [1] https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
> [2] https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss
> 

Really Awesome :-)

Could you sign your rde channel? I am not at ease adding unsigned
channels since that's basically RCE into my system :-)

Thanks!!

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Re: guix home: Call for Early Adopters

[Andrew Tropin]

> Could you sign your rde channel? I am not at ease adding unsigned
> channels since that's basically RCE into my system :-)

It is not intended for use as a channel, at least yet, because
`guix home` will not work without:

export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=~/.config/guix/current/share/guile/site/3.0:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH
export GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH=~/.config/guix/current/lib/guile/3.0/site-ccache:$GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH

By "local checkout of the rde Git repository", I meant literal
`git clone` to the local file system)

Anyway, I signed the channel,  the introduction is in the README.  Maybe
later I'll write a guide explaining how to use it as a channel.

> Thanks!!

You are very welcome (: and thank you for motivating me to clean up and
improve things)