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Nix – A One Pager
Their software freedom policy seems to be similar to Debian. All free by default, allow separate nonfree addon. In the case of Guix you can find that here: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix .
- Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
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Write Guix package definitions in a breeze: Introducing Guix Packager
The GUIX community has a non-free package repo, you just add it as a GUIX channel and problem solved:
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
- The many issues plaguing Nix
- Nonguix
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My Void experience, so you don't have to
Yes, being a GNU project Guix has a strict free software only policy. The biggest channel (repo) with proprietary stuff for Guix is called nonguix. It has the vanilla kernel, Nvidia drivers and a number of other proprietary packages including Steam, Chrome and the like. I don't know what the state of ZFS on Guix is though as I don't care for it myself, but I can see why its inclusion would be questioned with regards to licensing.
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Differences between nixos and guix?
Since Guix is a GNU project, it doesn't support proprietary software (Steam, Discord, Zoom...). Third-party repos are available for it.
- Cannot install firefox in guix
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I'm not fond of nix syntax, how difficult will it be to switch to guix
There's a git lab repo for non-free/libre software that you can add as a channel when installing. I used the following guide that shows you how to do this.
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Invalid Field Specifier
I'm trying to enable substitues for nonguix. I added the code snippet from the nonguix website to my system.scm file per the instructions. When I try to reconfigure I get the following error:
spack
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Autodafe: "freeing your freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools."
> Are we talking about the same autotools?
Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a --with-foo or --without-bar or --prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3, and be fairly confident that it will work the way I want.
Certainly with package managers or (FreeBSD) Ports a lot is taken care of behind the scenes, but the above would also help the package/port maintainers as well. Lately I've been using Spack for special-needs compiles, but maintainer ease also helps there, but there are still cases one a 'fully manual' compile is still done.
> Suffice it to say, I prefer to work with handwritten makefiles.
Having everyone 'roll their own' system would probably be worse, because any "mysteriously failure" then has to be debugged specially for each project.
Have you tried Spack?
* https://spack.io
* https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++
Well, good luck with that, cause it's broken.
Previous release miscompiled Python [1]
Current release miscompiles bison [2]
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/38724
[2] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/37172#issuecomment-181...
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…
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The Curious Case of MD5
> I can't count the number of times I've seen people say "md5 is fine for use case xyz" where in some counterintuitive way it wasn't fine.
I can count many more times that people told me that md5 was "broken" for file verification when, in fact, it never has been.
My main gripe with the article is that it portrays the entire legal profession as "backwards" and "deeply negligent" when they're not actually doing anything unsafe -- or even likely to be unsafe. And "tech" knows better. Much of tech, it would seem, has no idea about the use cases and why one might be safe or not. They just know something's "broken" -- so, clearly, we should update.
> Just use a safe one, even if you think you "don't need it".
Here's me switching 5,700 or so hashes from md5 to sha256 in 2019: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/13185
Did I need it? No. Am I "compliant"? Yes.
Really, though, the main tangible benefit was that it saved me having to respond to questions and uninformed criticism from people unnecessarily worried about md5 checksums.
- Spack Package Manager v0.21.0
- Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes
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Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/var/spack/repos/...
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Cython 3.0 Released
In Spack [1] we can express all these constraints for the dependency solver, and we also try to always re-cythonize sources. The latter is because bundled cythonized files are sometimes forward incompatible with Python, so it's better to just regenerate those with an up to date cython.
[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/
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Linux server for physics simulations
You want to look at the tools used for HPC systems, these are generally very well tried and tested and can be setup for single machine usage. Remote access - we use ssh, but web interfaces such as Open On Demand exist - https://openondemand.org/. For managing Jobs, Slurm is currently the most popular option - https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html. For a module system (to load software and libraries per user), Spack is a great - https://spack.io/. You might also want to consider containerisation options, https://apptainer.org/ is a good option.
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Simplest way to get latest gcc for any platform ?
git clone https://github.com/spack/spack.git ./spack/bin/spack install gcc
What are some alternatives?
guix-nonfree - Unofficial collection of packages that are not going to be accepted in to guix
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
com.valvesoftware.Steam
nix-processmgmt - Experimental Nix-based process management framework
guix-nonfree
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
ohpc - OpenHPC Integration, Packaging, and Test Repo
nixos-hardware - A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
NixOS-docker - DEPRECATED! Dockerfiles to package Nix in a minimal docker container