Group:Guix/WorkInProgress

This page is here to gather hopefully relevant pointers to currently worked on subjects.

If you find something stale, please edit or report to the dev ML.

If you want to participate, contribute or ask about some details, try on IRC or the dev ML.

The "wip-*" branches on savannah git may not be up to date, be careful.

• Diverse architecture support
  • PowerPC
    • ppc64le: preliminary support merged, no binary tarball released, no substitutes, but things should build.
    • ppc: git branch, issue, nothing distributed ATM, things should build. Work done on an iBook G4 with 1.5GB of RAM. Emulated building through qemu-binfmt should also work. Some packages, such as guile-3.0, can take more than 24 hours to build.
  • ARM
    • aarch64
      • pinebook-pro: Images, serial-console only (beware of the wrong cable problem), no screen output, no network.
      • pine64: Images
    • armhf:
      • novena: Images

• Full source bootstrap
  • binary seed reduced

• Hurd:
  • childhurds & substitutes
  • git branch

• Time travel: an Outreachy project

• Desktop environments
  • GNOME 40 Upgrade
    • guix-devel thread
    • wip git branch

• Web services
  • Sourcehut
    • guix-devel thread