After learning Nix/NixOS package manager in the past few weeks, I am now studying GNU Guix ( https://guix.gnu.org/ )
This might be a perfect OS for MayFirst - It is die-hard GNU in ‘Libre’-purity 
and seems to allow end-users to transactionally install Libre software without root access.
I’m very curious - keep us posted on how it goes!
So I have been using GNU Guix since then and I can report to you this looks really good. Hosting a shared server (not VPS) with Guix sounds very attractive because users can still install any software package as they see fit (they will all be installed under /gnu straight under root) without bothering other users.
However, occasionally, a package installation may start a lengthy compilation hogging the CPU cores. Some safeguarding might be necessary against this possibility.
Hi folks. Any news about this possibility of running a GNU Guix server?
We have not discussed much after my previous posting but I still think this would be a great thing to try! Do you use Guix?
Although I like GNU software and the overall idea of Free Software, I don’t feel comfortable promoting their software or the work that they do. Have you noticed that almost everyone on this long list of GNU contributors seems to be a man?!? To me, that’s a bad sign for organizations as old as GNU and the FSF.
If May First does decide to go with GNU Guix, maybe forking it and adding a good code of conduct will help to both make use of the system and make a clear statement that May First doesn’t align politically with GNU and the FSF when it comes to their lack of diversity and inclusiveness.
Well, thank you for clarifying your position here!
I have been sensing this in this forum and I need to be honest, I am probably more of GNU/FSF camp 
Having said that, from my recent interactions with various worker cooperative folks, such differences might be simply due to our personal experience, but I think we all do what we know is the right thing to do.
For me, for example, what is important is Anarchy - no ruler. It might be due to the fact I have experienced repulsive (by my standard ) paternalistic behaviors I have encountered in my life in Japan:sweat_smile:
So for me, telling others what to think or what is moral is a bit odd, or doesn’t feel right.
But then again, FSF itself bases its argument in free software being moral…
So I cannot come to any conclusion but my basic position is people know what is best for them and just let them do as they wish 