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| − | == Why create a GNU OS on top of GNU Linux-libre source code build system? ==
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| − | * By building a very small collection of programs from source locally, you can be sure that everything compiled is doing what you expect it to do, having absolute control of your packages.
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| − | * A good build framework will analyze the code functionally, execute checksums, and validate that the licensing represents free software.
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| − | * Post-build, the framework will ideally execute a handful of tests to validate the system as a whole does what is expected of it.
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| − | * For such large builds (the GNU OS on top of a kernel) it makes sense to automate as much as possible, from checking code out of their source repositories, or downloading tarballs, to generation of configuration files (and version management of those).
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| − | Arguments against writing it:
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| − | * There are plenty of existing software configuration management options out there, many highly configurable and already rooted in the GNU environment, such as [http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ Guix].
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| − | * I may rewrite the [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/arc.git arc build tool] originally implemented in Scheme by Gregor Klinke in Emacs Lisp.
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| − | * [http://www.eyestep.org/arc.html http://www.eyestep.org/arc.html] - The Arc Build Tool Project, written in Scheme
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| − | * [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/compliance http://www.fsf.org/licensing/compliance] - Free Software Foundation. License Violations and Compliance.
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| − | * [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html] - Eben Moglen. Enforcing the GNU GPL.
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| − | * [http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf] - Eelco Dolstra. The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model.
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| − | * [http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/hotos-final.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/hotos-final.pdf] - Eelco Dolstra, Armijn Hemel. Purely Functional System Configuration Management.
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| − | * [http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/iscsd-scm11-final.pdf] - Eelco Dolstra. Integrating Software Construction and Software Deployment.
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| − | * [http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/decvms-issre2010-final.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/decvms-issre2010-final.pdf] - Sander van der Burg, Eelco Dolstra. Automating System Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines.
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| − | * [http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/clones-msr2011-final.pdf http://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/clones-msr2011-final.pdf] - Armijn Hemel, Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Rob Vermaas, Eelco Dolstra. Finding Software License Violations Through Binary Code Clone Detection.
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| − | == Options for using Emacs Lisp to write SETI@home compatible programs ==
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