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Hello everyone, |
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My name is Christos and I am a student, currently studying Materials |
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Science at University of Crete in Greece. This year, I am happy to be a |
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participant at GSOC-2017 with Gentoo as my chosen organization. The |
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reason of me participating, is because, for the last two years, among |
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the things that intrigue me the most, operating systems (more specific |
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Linux), have been on the top of that list. |
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Atom Gentoo, is the Idea which instantly caught my attention, and made |
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me decide to propose over, since I have always been interested to |
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further expand my knowledge on how Linux works, and more general, on the |
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fundamentals of operating systems. |
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The content of my proposal is about configuring a minimal Gentoo image, |
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that can mount and function properly with a read-only root filesystem. |
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The image will hold information about how to: a) update or even |
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completely replace itself over the network, b) automatically change |
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bootflag to an alternative healthy partition in case the primary root |
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filesystem is lost. Additionally to the minimal Gentoo image, a server |
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framework will be configured, which will build and deploy the images to |
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the clients above, while at the same time, will provide services for |
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diskless nodes. |
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The goal is to create a fast, reliable and easy to deploy system, which |
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will function independently, while configuration files and user data |
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will be bind mounted over other local media or even over the network |
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(cloud). |
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I look forward to share more thoughts and ideas with you. |
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Best regards, |
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Christos |