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[Speaker 0]: I see 2 questions on the panel already.

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Let's see, 1 asking how much Andrew uses

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these ripples remotely or versus on their own

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desktop. And another asking if this can be

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integrated with EGLOT.

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And I will note that it is very cool that

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this year we've had so many talks on Ripples.

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Just goes to show how powerful Emacs is and

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just how much or how far you can push it and

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how much you can do with it.

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And so see someone asking on IRC,

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if or how many people use GnuGeeks.

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Since we are talking about Scheme,

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GnuGeeks is a great platform slash operating

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system or distro for your test house,

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but also for servers and such.

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They do some impressive,

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amazing work. And it's all,

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pretty much all done in Gindugal's scheme.

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So very cool stuff. Bye.

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You

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I see another interesting question on the

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pad. How hard is it to add support for

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something other than Guile?

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And if it makes sense to contribute at this

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early stage of development?

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They said that they've written several

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packages for chicken skin before and they

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would like to try this 1 as well.

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I guess since Andrew isn't still here,

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and there was some chatter about GnuGeeks in

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the chat, maybe it might be nice for me to

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share my screen and plug Inukis for a little

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bit and introduce it or at least show its

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website to folks who may not have seen it yet

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so I'm going to try and do that now.

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You

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Okay, let's see if this works.

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Okay, so this is GNU Geeks' website.

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You can go to geeks.gnu.org.

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And they introduced it at the top.

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So it's a wholly free operating system or

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distribution of GNU Linux.

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Meaning that it only has free software

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packaged and no non-free packages,

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so it is endorsed by the FSF and the GNU

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project. As someone said in the chat,

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it's kind of like Nix,

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but instead built on GNU Gallop scheme.

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It has transactional upgrades and rollbacks.

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So if you do upgrade your system and let's

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say in the middle of it,

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your hardware fails or your power goes out,

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the likelihood of things being corrupted is

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very low because the upgrade is essentially

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prepared like in the background.

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And then pretty much atomically,

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the system is switched to it.

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And also if there is some kind of,

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sorry, I'm losing my voice here.

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If there is some kind of issue that makes

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your system unbootable,

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you could always go back to booting the

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previous revision of your system when you

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restart in the Grub bootloader.

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Yeah, so they have a nice blog where they

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regularly post updates and what's new in the

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project. You can go check that out.

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We also have a packages archive where you can

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see a list of all the software that has been

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packaged for GNU Geeks.

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It is an impressive list.

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I don't know how many tens of thousands of

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packages there are. Geeks has been growing

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very well. And you can search the packages

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here. And yeah, all kinds of things are

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packaged. Of course, GNU Emacs is packaged,

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along with many extensions or packages,

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GNU Emacs packages that are packaged as

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system packages for Geeks.

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Yeah, so definitely go check it out.

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You can use Geeks both as a standalone

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package manager, let's say on a Debian-based

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distribution like Triscale,

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for example, or you could install it like as

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a complete system distribution on its own.

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So the former is useful if you want to maybe

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get a taste for Geeks and try it out before

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fully committing to it and switching to it as

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your main distro. You can try it on top of

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any other distro pretty much and then you can

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of course install it on its own as well as a

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system distribution.

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Yeah, there are a bunch of manuals and

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reference cards and videos that you're

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welcome to watch. They have several mailing

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lists. It sounds like they have a wiki now as

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well. And the development is done on Gnu

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Savannah. If we go to savannah.gnu.org

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slash projects slash geeks,

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Yeah, the project is developed here and they

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have a bunch of repositories including the

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main 1 which is geeks.git

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itself. So yeah, folks are welcome to go

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check it out. Let's see,

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maybe we can go have a look at some package

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definitions, although I think we're almost

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out of time on the live stream.

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So, yeah, just quickly.

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Emacs to the CM has all the,

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Emacs packages or Emacs itself.

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And Emacs-xyz is where you'll find all the

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Emacs like ELPA packages,

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but package for use on GNU Geeks system or

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with GNU Geeks. And I think that's all the

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time that we have. So yeah,

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thanks for tuning in, folks.

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Please post your questions on the pad.

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We'll pass them on to Andrew.

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And yeah, hope you enjoy this.

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Definitely go check out Andrew's work and Gnu

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geeks as well. You are currently the only

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person in this conference.