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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:53:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h80xw16s.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cu7zhepclaa.fsf@systemreboot.net>

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Hi Arun!

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

> Reads well to me, but that could be because I already understand the
> content of the essay. I don't know how practical it is, but if we can
> get people who have never heard of Guix to read it, their opinion would
> be of much value.

Indeed.  I've given it to a couple of friends who are not familiar with
Guix.  I'm still waiting for their feedback.

>> Applications are /written/ in the form of /source code/, which is a series of
>> instructions for the computer stored as text files.  But the machine cannot read
>> theses files directly: it must first be /compiled/ into /machine code/.  The
>> resulting /compiled application/ can then be run by the user.
>
> Minor typo: "theses" -> "these"

Fixed, thanks!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-02 10:03 How to present Guix to a wider audience Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-02 18:18 ` zimoun
2020-01-08 15:33   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 16:32     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-08 20:18     ` zimoun
     [not found]       ` <24DdUL_0dCHlf-Jsotb_z0Mxz7kuUpI_FeBoRrbgJUypYRxvic9u3GhPfBwAiz5ZGjRxITivscu59w_-BPA2cIY_wSbypis89M7Jb8AglBM=@protonmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CAJ3okZ1CQ1zvbHnFT6EmB+yYFwcAszZ0baroyj03LzTK7AhBXw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-10  9:52           ` wisdomlight--- via
2020-01-10 12:19             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-02 19:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-08 15:26   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 11:23 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 15:58   ` Jack Hill
2020-01-14 17:00     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-14 21:01       ` Jack Hill
2020-01-14 23:44   ` Dimakakos Dimos
2020-01-15  0:07   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-01-15  8:52     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15  0:20   ` Josh
2020-01-15  8:57     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15  5:59   ` Arun Isaac
2020-01-15  8:53     ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-01-15  8:59   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-15 17:44     ` sirgazil
2020-01-19 11:03       ` Todor Kondić
2020-01-19 15:57         ` wisdomlight
2020-01-21 21:49   ` ndre
2020-01-22 11:00     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-22 17:35       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-23 14:44         ` Kelsang Sherab
2020-01-23 21:25           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11  7:45   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 17:38     ` Josh Marshall

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