I love Guix and GuixSD and would like to move to it as my main OS, but I dislike that they actively censor information on how to run a custom kernel and get set up on a machine where some drivers linux-libre removes are required. I understand that they don't want to distribute those stuff and that's fine, but not everybody can buy new hardware and especially any hardware easily. This is extremism for me (banning official information, not the offending drivers), it's distasteful and discourages me.
Let's say I want to have the last five versions of my application installed as a mortal user, for testing purposes.
Let's say that my application's build system pulls in a big GUI toolkit binary because reasons.
Let's say I don't want to create "official" packages for it, just something quick and dirty that will get me these versions installed.
Can I do this with GNU Guix?
> Bootloader definitions are available for many boards—Novena, A20 OLinuXino, BeagleBone, and even NES.
I'd love to see somebody try to run GuixSD on a NES.
very very happy to see the project lively and kicking :)
The big problem that Nix/NixOS has is failure to integrate well with graphics libraries (OpenGL drivers, etc).
Does Guix solve this problem?
I ask this with no passive aggression; what are the advantages of Guix over Nix? I've used Nix a few times and thought it was pretty neat...