Tuesday, January 31, 2012

'Engineering' versus 'Science'

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As part of my work as a PhD student, I do research in software engineering, in particular software deployment . My research consists of all ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Porting software to AmigaOS (unconventional style)

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As I have mentioned in my previous blog post (in which I reflected over the last year), the Amiga is still not quite dead yet and (for some ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

One year later

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Today, it's my blog's first anniversary, so I thought this is a good opportunity to do some reflection about it. Motivation So wh...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Techniques and lessons for improvement of deployment processes

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So far, all my software deployment related blog posts were mostly about techniques implemented in Nix , NixOS and Disnix and some general...
Monday, December 12, 2011

An evaluation and comparison of GoboLinux

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In this blog post, I'm going to evaluate deployment properties of GoboLinux and compare it with NixOS . Both Linux distributions are u...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

On Nix, NixOS and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)

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Our work on NixOS has been topic of discussion within various free software/open source projects and websites. For example, we have been di...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Deploying .NET services with Disnix

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In two earlier blog posts, I have explained how the the Nix package manager can be used to deploy .NET software . I'm happy to report th...