Notices by Giacomo Leidi (paulbutgold@mastodon.bida.im)

@amszmidt @gugurumbe I didn't say the #Guix project should distribute such images. We are fine with #nonguix distributing them, as it has done for the past years. The point is that right now it is not possible to install the nonguix channel and substitute server through the Guix installer. The same goes for all third party channels such as guix-hpc or guix-science.

Also, as far as I am concerned, Guix should leave the GNU project. It is possible to build completely free software based distros outside of GNU.

@gugurumbe i'm not a maintainer but I don't think Guix mainline should ever contain proprietary software. I think the Guix project, while keeping its principles of having only free software in mainline, could make it easier to have images with nonfree drivers, since most users require them.

We are not far imho, we just need some change in the installer to use the guix-for-channels procedure [0] for the final system and allow configuring third party substitute servers for the final system in the installer.

[0]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Customizing-the-System_002dWide-Guix

For the black friday I'd love a worker cooperative doing #guix and #guile and #spritely based products