[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2014: Micro Gentoo - Proposal

[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2014: Micro Gentoo - Proposal

[Yiyong Chen]

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Hi,

      My name is Yiyong Chen. I am in the second year of my Ph.D study in
the school of software and microelectronics, Peking University. I have 2
years' experience of using Linux distros and Xen/KVM virtual machine. A few
months ago, I have changed my daily desktop to Gentoo and enjoy it very
much.

      I am interested in the project Micro Gentoo[1]. And I have submitted
my proposal on the google-melange[2].

      The Micro Gentoo project goal is to create an extremely minimal
Gentoo VM consisting of not much more than a kernel and would fetch
compiled files on-demand. These files are initially on a remote server.
Meanwhile, the project also considers the smooth-secure OS updates and
remote repositories selection. I would comprehensively base my work on the
technologies of uCernVM, Chromeos and CoreOS, and then adapt them to
Gentoo. The deliverables include Micro-Gentoo building scripts, updaters,
eselect module and patches to genkernel, etc.

      The Gentoo users will benefit a lot from this project. They can
deploy Micro Gentoo with very little initial network latency and fetch
files on-demand. It also avoids updating package by package which is time
consuming and has risks. With Micro Gentoo, the users just select a new
version of Gentoo repo and smoothly switch to it. Micro Gentoo also
provides roll back mechanism. Therefore, the project is a great application
for cloud computing of Gentoo.

      I am looking forward to your feedback.

[1] Project page:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2014/Ideas/micro_Gentoo
[2] My Proposal:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/yiyong/5629499534213120

     Best wishes!
Yiyong Chen.

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