From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dm29iog.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v99qit39.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:19:59 -0400")
Hi,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> Ultimately, I gave up. In my opinion, Guix has never achieved usability
> as a desktop system on non-Intel systems. Therefore, the Guix community
> is unable to attract many developers who want a distro that supports
> non-Intel systems well. Our community has thus become dominated by
> Intel users, and there's unsufficient political will to adopt policies
> that would enable us to provide a usable system for non-Intel users.
A practical problem that’s been mentioned repeatedly is lack of ci.guix
hardware for non-Intel architectures: please everyone, consider helping
the project find either sponsors or companies that sell fitting
hardware, along with a plan to host it and maintain it over time!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-20 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-16 11:10 [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-16 11:17 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2021-03-16 11:27 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-16 19:15 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-16 23:19 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-16 23:49 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-17 11:54 ` Guix moving too fast? zimoun
2021-03-17 6:07 ` [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-17 6:21 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-20 11:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-03-22 13:44 ` raingloom
2021-03-23 16:22 ` Joshua Branson
2021-03-23 23:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-23 17:56 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 22:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-03-24 19:51 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-24 20:24 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-03-24 20:32 ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-24 20:55 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-25 14:22 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-03-25 18:19 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-30 8:42 ` Buying AArch64 hardware? Ludovic Courtès
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