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diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction.xml b/doc/manual/introduction.xml index 21b1df156..e0300dc86 100644 --- a/doc/manual/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/manual/introduction.xml @@ -254,33 +254,6 @@ xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para> </section> -<section><title>About us</title> - -<para>Nix was originally developed at the <link -xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/">Department of Information and -Computing Sciences</link>, Utrecht University by the <link -xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Trace/WebHome">TraCE -project</link> (2003-2008). The project was funded by the Software -Engineering Research Program <link -xlink:href="http://www.jacquard.nl/">Jacquard</link> to improve the -support for variability in software systems. Further funding was -provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project. Development is -currently supported by <link -xlink:href="http://www.logicblox.com/">LogicBlox</link>.</para> - -</section> - - -<section><title>About this manual</title> - -<para>This manual tells you how to install and use Nix and how to -write Nix expressions for software not already in the Nix Packages -collection. It also discusses some advanced topics, such as setting -up distributed multi-platform building.</para> - -</section> - - <section><title>License</title> <para>Nix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it @@ -297,41 +270,4 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</para> </section> -<section><title>More information</title> - -<para>Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of -papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <citetitle -xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing -a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment</citetitle> -discusses the hashing mechanism used to ensure reliable dependency -identification and non-interference between different versions and -variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper <citetitle -xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix: -A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment</citetitle> -gives a more general discussion of Nix from a system-administration -perspective. The CBSE 2005 paper <citetitle -xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient -Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model -</citetitle> is about transparent patch deployment in Nix. The SCM-12 -paper <citetitle -xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'> -Service Configuration Management</citetitle> shows how services (e.g., -web servers) can be deployed and managed through Nix. An overview of -NixOS is given in the JFP article <citetitle -xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf">NixOS: -A Purely Functional Linux Distribution</citetitle>. The Nix homepage -has <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/docs/papers.html">an up-to-date -list of Nix-related papers</link>.</para> - -<para>Nix is the subject of Eelco Dolstra’s PhD thesis <citetitle -xlink:href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2006-0118-200031/index.htm">The -Purely Functional Software Deployment Model</citetitle>, which -contains most of the papers listed above.</para> - -<para>Nix has a homepage at <link -xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>.</para> - -</section> - - </chapter> |