![]() The default extensions Icecat ships with include GNU LibreJS and a bunch of extensions for making specific sites work with LibreJS. And you can’t install Firefox themes on it. If you install Icecat – their Firefox version, you will find that many websites don’t work. The answer could be in the GNU Guix Reference Manual. In other words, where and how you would configure and setup X or e-mail services like postfix and things like that remains a mystery. There is, for example, no /etc/X11 where you’d expect X’s configuration files to be. You can list all available services and their status with the command: herd statusĬonfiguration of the available services does not appear to follow any known standard. If you’re not root then don’t worry, you can just type sudo bash or sudo sh (both shells are available, one is not an alias for the other) and become root. Services are managed with the herd command which must be ran in a terminal as root. This means you will have to read the fine manual to use it because it is unlike everything you may be used to from other distributions. Guix has it’s own service manager called Shepherd which is more similar to systemd than it is to older traditional init-systems like sysvinit and OpenRC (there is no /etc/init.d/. This is somewhat problematic with ungoogled-chromium in particular because that piece of software needs more than 8 GB of RAM for a successful compile and the compilation as well as your machine will just stalls at 87% if you have 8 GB or less. It appears to be somewhat random if guix install will download a binary package or spend ages compiling. One key difference is that on Gentoo you expect that a package install involves your CPU being busy for hours while you wait for the package to compile. Gentoo users will be familiar with this process. Sometimes, when installing some packages such as with ungoogled-chromium, it decides to start compiling (“building”) the program. Sometimes running guix install will download some packages and write to disk and it’s done. There is no system-side /lib/ or /usr/lib/ and while there is a /bin/ root folder it’s only item is a sh symlink to a package in /store/gnu/.Īvailable per-user binaries exist as symbolic links in $HOME/.guix-profile which itself is a symbolic link to something like /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USERNAME/guix-profile. Things do differ wildly on the back-end side of Guix’s package management. Most importantly: installed software is placed in it’s own folder in /gnu/store. For example, guix install pidgin places a copy for the user running that command in /gnu/store/-pidgin-2.12.0 and that folder gets the sub-folders bin/ etc/ include/ lib/ share/. Installing packages is not restricted to root or anyone else with “special” rights. You can install packages as a regular user. It looks like Iceweasel does almost the same thing, although it may skip more versions and be further behind at points in keeping with general debian practices.And by would type we mean have to type because there is no graphical package management interface on Guix. The Icecat wikipedia page states that "The GNU Project keeps IceCat in synchronization with upstream development of Firefox", so I would presume their version numbers match up. Iceweasel is a repackaging (and modification) by debian. So, currently: Icecat is a repackaging (and modification) of firefox by GNU. Somewhere I while back I saw a GNU comment regarding "Why Icecat?" to which the answer was, "Because it's not Firefox", but clearly "Iceweasel" was a better inversion, and it sounds to me like this was used first to refer to any pseudo-firefox, which explains the eventual GNU/Debian confusion. What the "tweak" amounts to may just be the logo since it involved a license Debian considers "non-free", they wanted a firefox they could distribute without it, which required a rename.Ī bit odd, but I presume that Debian, GNU, and Mozilla have a mostly friendly relationship. ![]() GNU Icecat was GNU Iceweasel, but the reason they changed the name was because Debian also used "Iceweasel" to rebrand their slightly tweaked version of firefox.
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