From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac Subject: Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:29:25 +0530 Message-ID: References: <878smq41kg.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <874kwyp9hi.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irbiR-0008Sr-0t for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:59:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irbiO-0001e7-Sh for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:59:42 -0500 Received: from mugam.systemreboot.net ([139.59.75.54]:33324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irbiN-0001cR-ON for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:59:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874kwyp9hi.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt , help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain > 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" --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEf3MDQ/Lwnzx3v3nTLiXui2GAK7MFAl4eqj0ACgkQLiXui2GA K7NKcgf7BbOTYPtMvViOtLYy1zO8RhhRqEhzJR5MHW6LgEM0NvhkfIQxOHb0QJQM EorhuQiaji2jTu/87vKjheztH7KN2aPYG4FAYq+5qtQNrUqsYXPt/PIRbLSHNx78 W6L84LTOPdACS4RVmOMiUpRYwb1Be5mKQd0ZW6XicMKOQYcwqVk54hKYhE1+PdX2 vrR0YIUw7X7Y6dRvZPvIJK51Foc0tF7oDonHYcPjMGivNI6Vyjg6gDkljC4xLQJn 8uQZjlBbr+B0Jasn4ZQub818MiYt7SKNnXipJ+Xb2SUgYeN95gz41XbRJMBnRQ5p 51SVxCBwRcW0VAFsznucFQJIMb43qw== =uD/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--