Konrad Hinsen
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⚠ New #Guix daemon security vulnerability 👇
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-2025-2/
Simon Tournier
boosted
64-bit childhurds are in the house!
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Virtualization-Services.html#index-hurd_002dvm_002dconfiguration
Means anyone on #Guix can run an x86_64 #Hurd virtual machine just by setting (type 'hurd64-qcow2).
Kudos to Yelninei for this work!
Simon Tournier
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After upgrading my Guix System to 24a46e9 IceCat has lost the ability to work with ibus. I can't enter UNICODEs (Ctrl+Shift+U) nor type Japanese, even though these work okay in other applications...
I think this is not the first time this happens but I can't remember how to fix it.
If anyone has a clue...
Sharlatan
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“Reproducible HPC software deployments, simulations, and workflows – a case study for far-field deep geological repository assessment”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-025-12501-z
Fresh from the oven, a nice showcase of #ReproducibleResearch in #HPC with #Guix.
Some business closed. They gave me away a server machine. I installed Fedora Silverblue on it for work and to feel a unified GNOME desktop experience. I liked the latter. Except for Software Center, which has been unreliable, so I end up using Flathub + Flatpak CLI instead.
The package management experience though, not so much. You have to use three package managers: flatpak for GUI apps, dnf inside toolbox for CLI programs and rpm-ostree for system-wide things.
Incidentally, I’m sort of mapping out all the available options for #Guix CI, and there’s quite a few here: Cuirass, Guix Data Service + Build Coordinator + QA Frontpage, Forgejo Actions, a custom bot, and variants or combinations thereof…
Good experience with #Forgejo Actions on #Codeberg using one of the runners they generously provide:
https://codeberg.org/fibers/fibers/actions
I was surprised by how snappy this is, esp. given that this is a site-wide shared runner (it does seem to be overloaded sometimes though).
Anyway, great stuff. 👍
This is all #Guix-less so far (the build environment runs a Debian derivative, I don’t even know which one!), so not fully satisfactory. ;-)
I guess I could write an action that downloads and installs a recent Guix snapshot. Anyone tried it? (I know some did that for GitHub before, not sure if this is directly reusable.)