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Hi, |
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My name is Yiyong Chen. I am in the second year of my Ph.D study in |
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the school of software and microelectronics, Peking University. I have 2 |
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years' experience of using Linux distros and Xen/KVM virtual machine. A few |
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months ago, I have changed my daily desktop to Gentoo and enjoy it very |
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much. |
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I am interested in the project Micro Gentoo[1]. And I have submitted |
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my proposal on the google-melange[2]. |
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The Micro Gentoo project goal is to create an extremely minimal |
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Gentoo VM consisting of not much more than a kernel and would fetch |
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compiled files on-demand. These files are initially on a remote server. |
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Meanwhile, the project also considers the smooth-secure OS updates and |
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remote repositories selection. I would comprehensively base my work on the |
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technologies of uCernVM, Chromeos and CoreOS, and then adapt them to |
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Gentoo. The deliverables include Micro-Gentoo building scripts, updaters, |
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eselect module and patches to genkernel, etc. |
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The Gentoo users will benefit a lot from this project. They can |
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deploy Micro Gentoo with very little initial network latency and fetch |
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files on-demand. It also avoids updating package by package which is time |
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consuming and has risks. With Micro Gentoo, the users just select a new |
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version of Gentoo repo and smoothly switch to it. Micro Gentoo also |
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provides roll back mechanism. Therefore, the project is a great application |
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for cloud computing of Gentoo. |
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I am looking forward to your feedback. |
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[1] Project page: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2014/Ideas/micro_Gentoo |
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[2] My Proposal: |
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http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/yiyong/5629499534213120 |
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Best wishes! |
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Yiyong Chen. |
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