Re: Guix Home Entertainment SoC Media Server?

[phodina]

Hi Blake,

> Hiya Guix!
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> I just got a TV and want to put together a little SoC home media server for
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> it (perhaps with beaglebone black, as that appears to be the recommended
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> SoC for Guix). Has anyone had any experience with this? Thoughts?
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> I figure it could be a fun use of `Guix Deploy`, but I've never put
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> together a SoC media server before, so I'm not sure what packages to
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> peek at, or what "out of the box" (re: raspbian etc) options are
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> available.
>
> Seems like this could be some cool shoes for Guix to fill!
>
> ez,
>
> blake

I'd probably recommend something like Raspberry Pi. The latest iteration is 
quite powerful and you can run Kodi there.

There's a patch pending to support this fruit board in Guix :-)

Patches to install guix system on Raspberry Pi [1]

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2021-06/msg01228.html

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