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diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction.xml b/doc/manual/introduction.xml index d2f23bf44aef..2e32a649d845 100644 --- a/doc/manual/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/manual/introduction.xml @@ -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> |