From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:29:25 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cu7zhepclaa.fsf@systemreboot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kwyp9hi.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
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> I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman
> terms why Guix matters.
>
> I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical
> vocabulary.
>
> Let me know what you think!
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.
> 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"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 5:59 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
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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 [this message]
2020-01-15 8:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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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