[Speaker 0]: I see 2 questions on the panel already.
Let's see, 1 asking how much Andrew uses
these ripples remotely or versus on their own
desktop. And another asking if this can be
integrated with EGLOT.
And I will note that it is very cool that
this year we've had so many talks on Ripples.
Just goes to show how powerful Emacs is and
just how much or how far you can push it and
how much you can do with it.
And so see someone asking on IRC,
if or how many people use GnuGeeks.
Since we are talking about Scheme,
GnuGeeks is a great platform slash operating
system or distro for your test house,
but also for servers and such.
They do some impressive,
amazing work. And it's all,
pretty much all done in Gindugal's scheme.
So very cool stuff. Bye.
You
I see another interesting question on the
pad. How hard is it to add support for
something other than Guile?
And if it makes sense to contribute at this
early stage of development?
They said that they've written several
packages for chicken skin before and they
would like to try this 1 as well.
I guess since Andrew isn't still here,
and there was some chatter about GnuGeeks in
the chat, maybe it might be nice for me to
share my screen and plug Inukis for a little
bit and introduce it or at least show its
website to folks who may not have seen it yet
so I'm going to try and do that now.
You
Okay, let's see if this works.
Okay, so this is GNU Geeks' website.
You can go to geeks.gnu.org.
And they introduced it at the top.
So it's a wholly free operating system or
distribution of GNU Linux.
Meaning that it only has free software
packaged and no non-free packages,
so it is endorsed by the FSF and the GNU
project. As someone said in the chat,
it's kind of like Nix,
but instead built on GNU Gallop scheme.
It has transactional upgrades and rollbacks.
So if you do upgrade your system and let's
say in the middle of it,
your hardware fails or your power goes out,
the likelihood of things being corrupted is
very low because the upgrade is essentially
prepared like in the background.
And then pretty much atomically,
the system is switched to it.
And also if there is some kind of,
sorry, I'm losing my voice here.
If there is some kind of issue that makes
your system unbootable,
you could always go back to booting the
previous revision of your system when you
restart in the Grub bootloader.
Yeah, so they have a nice blog where they
regularly post updates and what's new in the
project. You can go check that out.
We also have a packages archive where you can
see a list of all the software that has been
packaged for GNU Geeks.
It is an impressive list.
I don't know how many tens of thousands of
packages there are. Geeks has been growing
very well. And you can search the packages
here. And yeah, all kinds of things are
packaged. Of course, GNU Emacs is packaged,
along with many extensions or packages,
GNU Emacs packages that are packaged as
system packages for Geeks.
Yeah, so definitely go check it out.
You can use Geeks both as a standalone
package manager, let's say on a Debian-based
distribution like Triscale,
for example, or you could install it like as
a complete system distribution on its own.
So the former is useful if you want to maybe
get a taste for Geeks and try it out before
fully committing to it and switching to it as
your main distro. You can try it on top of
any other distro pretty much and then you can
of course install it on its own as well as a
system distribution.
Yeah, there are a bunch of manuals and
reference cards and videos that you're
welcome to watch. They have several mailing
lists. It sounds like they have a wiki now as
well. And the development is done on Gnu
Savannah. If we go to savannah.gnu.org
slash projects slash geeks,
Yeah, the project is developed here and they
have a bunch of repositories including the
main 1 which is geeks.git
itself. So yeah, folks are welcome to go
check it out. Let's see,
maybe we can go have a look at some package
definitions, although I think we're almost
out of time on the live stream.
So, yeah, just quickly.
Emacs to the CM has all the,
Emacs packages or Emacs itself.
And Emacs-xyz is where you'll find all the
Emacs like ELPA packages,
but package for use on GNU Geeks system or
with GNU Geeks. And I think that's all the
time that we have. So yeah,
thanks for tuning in, folks.
Please post your questions on the pad.
We'll pass them on to Andrew.
And yeah, hope you enjoy this.
Definitely go check out Andrew's work and Gnu
geeks as well. You are currently the only
person in this conference.