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@ -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>