Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>]

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On Tue, 19 May 2015, Amirouche BOUBEKKI wrote:

> Le mardi 19 mai 2015 à 10:55 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit :
>> Hi Fabian,
>>
>>> But the system build broke.
>>
>> What exactly does this mean?
>>
>>> I used a Lenovo T60 with just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to
>>> build a Guix system? I used the very tiny system configuration that i
>>> found on the installer USB with slight changes.
>>
>> I use the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) on both a T60 and an X200s.
>> I did *not* compile everything from scratch but used binary substitutes
>> for the vast majority of packages.
>
> Here on a glublub X60 it installed correctly with substitues. There is
> XFCE and WM maker as WM. And it works quiet good as second workstation.
> GSD hasn't yet, all the s/spies/daemons that other distros can have ;)

This is it, with substitutes, it works, even on 1GB of RAM. But as soon as 
you want to compile, then 1GB of RAM is not enought. I even used 1GB swap 
and still no go.

The question is something I am interest in too - what is the minimum to 
compile the guix(SD)? Does anybody know?

>> ~~ Ricardo

Adam Pribyl