Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

And I recently experimented with WSL2 and WSLG on Windows 11, running on a 
5-year-old Surface Book.

Ubuntu works quite well on it and I can run Linux GUI applications from Windows 
and run Windows applications, like Excel and Powershell, from Linux.

So this indicates there is a high likelihood Guix will be a decent enterprise 
package manager, as long as the users' IT department allows WSL on 
enterprise-managed Windows PCs.  (which may be a hurdle too much to ask for 
though😅)

Sorry I have been wanting to follow up more but I have been too busy setting up 
our worker coop in Japan😅

-Yasu


> On Aug 26, 2022, at 03:37, Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022, Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yasuaki Kudo writes:
> 
>> However, I am interested in seeing Guix and Guix services
>> gaining a foothold in the commercial space, and exchanging ideas
> 
> I see a lot of potential there:
> 
>  - Continuous integration
>  - VM generation and deployment with OpenStack
>  - Container generation and deployment with K8s
>  - Root filesystem generation for embedded systems (e.g. Yocto, Elbe)
> 
>> as well as growing it in academia too.
> 
> As a student, here's how I have been using Guix on the academic side:
> 
>  - CI (cuirass) of developed tools
>  - Reproducible workflow for my research
>  - guix-shell + manifests for volatile laboratories environment
>  - Automatic correction of student's work submission (similar to a CI)
> 
> In all, Guix is a very powerful/flexible tool when in good hands and
> everyone in the field would gain from mass adoption of it.  I think it
> has a bright future ahead.
> 
> -- 
> Olivier Dion
> oldiob.dev