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02/02: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Hurd and Cuirass links.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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02/02: website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Hurd and Cuirass links. |
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Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:01:36 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.
commit c261e2191e8d196cb10635cd550cd47cfdb18acf
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 18 00:00:09 2022 +0200
website: 10y-birthday-stories: Add Hurd and Cuirass links.
* website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md: Add Hurd and Cuirass links.
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diff --git a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
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--- a/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
+++ b/website/drafts/10y-birthday-stories.md
@@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ some „guix compose“ for managing compound containers.
# Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen
-At FOSDEM 2016 there were seven talks about GNU Guix: A talk about the Hurd by
+At FOSDEM 2016 there were seven talks about GNU Guix: A
+[talk](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/tags/talks) about the Hurd by
Manolis Ragkousis, about functional package management by Ricardo Wurmus and
that was just what I needed to hear: Finally a viable promise for the GNU
System and much more innovative than I could have hoped for. At the time I
@@ -383,16 +384,17 @@ feel: Go Guix!
This is how I found how amazingly helpful and friendly the community was. I
created the MinGW cross build for Guile 2.0 and then "found out" about the
bootstrap binaries: The only packages in Guix that are not built from source.
-Something just did not feel right. The manual said: "These big chunks of
+Something just did not feel right. The manual said: "_These big chunks of
binary code are practically non-auditable which breaks the source to binary
-transparency that we get in the rest of the package dependency graph." So, I
-wrote GNU Mes and started working on solving this problem. Twice we halved
+transparency that we get in the rest of the package dependency graph_." So, I
+wrote GNU Mes and started working on solving this problem.
[Twice](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/)
we
[halved](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/)
the size of the bootstrap binaries and the work is still ongoing.
-What possibly started somewhat as a April fools joke in 2020 about the
+What possibly started somewhat as a [April fools joke in
2020](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-linux-kernel/)
about the
Hurd—this is still unclear—was (mis?)taken by some as a real project and
led to a fun hacking frenzy of several months finally producing the
-"Childhurd": A Guix Shepherd service that gives access to the GNU/Hurd in a
+["Childhurd"](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes/):
+A Guix Shepherd service that gives access to the GNU/Hurd in a
VM. My wish for the near future would be see an up-to-date Hurd including the
Debian rumpkernel patches that may finally enable running the Hurd on real
hardware again.
@@ -583,12 +585,13 @@ every Linux service out there and keeping them up to date
seemed like
impossible. However, I quickly fell in love with the package manager, the
distribution and the community behind. A few months later, GNU Guix was
running on all my machines and I started hacking on the continuous integration
-tool: Cuirass.
+tool: [Cuirass](https://guix.gnu.org/en/cuirass/).
Since then GNU Guix has been an important part of my life. I wrote most of the
-Guix System installer while traveling by bike to China in 2018. During the
-2020 lockdown, I worked with janneke on the new image API and the Hurd
-port. At that time, I was proposed a co-maintainer position of the project.
+[Guix System
installer](https://guix.gnu.org/en/videos/2020/system-graphical-installer/)
while traveling by bike to China in 2018. During the
+2020 lockdown, I worked with janneke on the new image API and the [Hurd
+port](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes/).
+At that time, I was proposed a co-maintainer position of the project.
In 2021, thanks to an NGI sponsorship, I dedicated 6 months to improving our
continuous integration process and overall substitutes coverage.