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From: Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Guix on Macintosh?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:50:33 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de6564b0-f867-2666-d6fb-172cf44870a2@yasuaki.com> (raw)

Hi!


I started to experiment with VSCode DevContainers, to see if it is 
possible for Linux/Windows/Macintosh users to share the same Linux 
development environment.

https://github.com/yugawara/xeyes

I work at a worker cooperative ( our federation site is here at 
https://patio.coop ) and one thing we have in common is to work from 
various places on the planet and we like having all services that make 
up a (web) application on our laptop computers, etc.

As we all know, the way Docker works means there is horrendous waste on 
hard drives and network.  So I am thinking of using Guix.  However, I 
understand that there is no native support for Guix for Macintosh.

Although I am not terribly sure (yet) how Guix may or may not help with 
script specific packages such as NPM..., my biggest question is how a 
Mancintosh user can take advantage of Guix.

There are quite a lot of programmers with those shiny Mac Laptops...  Of 
course, as a last resort, there must be some Intel emulators for these 
so one can install Linux and Windows on top of them but I wonder if:

* Guix Package Manger can be installed within a Docker Container which 
can be hosted on a Macintosh?

The reason I am asking about Mac in particular is that Windows does a 
decent Linux emulation with WSL2 and my solution would seem to work.  I 
just don't have any Mac hardware so I cannot tell for sure if this is at 
all viable...

If it does, although this might be a little convoluted but I think we 
can use Guix as part of a Docker container that is meant for programmers 
in the same development team.


Many thanks  in advance!!

-Yasu







             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-19 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-19 12:50 Yasuaki Kudo [this message]
2023-06-19 21:13 ` Guix on Macintosh? Wojtek Kosior via
2023-06-20 10:23 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-06-20 11:11 ` david larsson
2023-06-22 10:07 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2023-06-23 10:24   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2023-06-23 13:14     ` Yasuaki Kudo
2023-06-24 10:26       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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