Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

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.

Unless you *want* to build *everything* from scratch, be sure to enable
binary substitutes by authorising the build farm hydra.gnu.org with:

  guix import --authorize < /path/to/hydras.public.key

> Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but this was not
> possible.

You can most definitely use a different locale, but you will have to
install the glibc-locales package or else applications won't be able to
find the appropriate strings.

~~ Ricardo