Re: GSoC ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> The three ideas that I had so far that are floating around in a text file are:
>
> - arm64 port -- This could probably be extended into getting a working system
>   into place to have a u-boot -> grub loader, and/or using kexec to get a
>   booted system to reboot into an arm libre-kernel. (for armv7 and arm64?)

For aarch64 the first task would be to port Guix (not GuixSD) to that
architecture (info "(guix) Bootstrapping").  If everything goes well, it
can be relatively simple, but sometimes things don’t go well.  ;-)

Otherwise it’s surely an eligible project IMO.

> - ncurses installer -- my idea was Debian's installer can be considered ugly,
>   but it does have everything needed to install a system.

Right, that would be nice.

> - GaPMaCt - Guix's amazing package manager and configure tool -- Same
>   non-emacs package & system manager as above. Maybe a backend with a GTK or
>   ncurses frontend.

+1!

Ludo’.