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@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ configuration (e.g., to build configuration files in
possible to easily roll back the entire configuration of the system to
an earlier state. Also, users can install software without root
privileges. For more information and downloads, see the <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
</simplesect>
@ -257,14 +257,15 @@ xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
<section><title>About us</title>
<para>Nix was developed at the <link
<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>. The project is funded by the Software Engineering
Research Program <link
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.</para>
support for variability in software systems. Further funding is now
provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project.</para>
</section>
@ -299,24 +300,24 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</para>
<para>Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of
papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <citetitle
xlink:href='http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing
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.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix:
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.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient
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.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'>
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. A short
overview of NixOS is given in the HotOS XI paper <citetitle
xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely
xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/hotos-final.pdf">Purely
Functional System Configuration Management</citetitle>. The Nix
homepage has <link
xlink:href="http://nix.cs.uu.nl/docs/papers.html">an up-to-date list
@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ 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://nix.cs.uu.nl/"/>.</para>
xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>.</para>
</section>