https://diode.zone/videos/watch/30884a76-412b-4fae-82ed-3b24c28d4088 What happens, when you type guix system reconfigure?, What is the difference between Shepherd service and System service? Shepherd is a daemon manager and init system. Guix services is a mechanism for operating system extension, it can utilize Shepherd capabilities, but also can do things on its own. Let's explore this important part of Guix System., 0:00 Introduction 1:00 rde updates 1:45 Shepherd, shepherd services and runtime part of the system 7:40 User-space Shepherd and lingering Shepherd 11:20 System services and side-effects 14:00 Extension graph of OS 17:30 /run/current-system, boot and activation scripts 21:24 Declaring OS and system services 25:30 activation-service-type implementation 32:20 Side-effects and activation script 36:17 System reconfiguration process 40:00 Shepherd Services vs System Services 44:40 modify-services function 47:00 Ideas for future work Stream notes: https://github.com/abcdw/notes/blob/7fcc0ad5d62de096127d8fca96b185799e7f51bd/notes/20210104134545-guix_services_and_shepherd.org rde repository: https://github.com/abcdw/rde/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:27:50 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/61b689b7-84d5-43c7-9fa8-e63a7fd1d952.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/30884a76-412b-4fae-82ed-3b24c28d4088 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.