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Stable DECODE OS release
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This document accompanies the stable release of the DECODE OS, one of
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the core development outputs of the DECODE project, aimed at providing
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a reliable operating system to run application space development in an
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environment ensuring privacy by design outside of the application
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domain. This deliverable references, without duplication of
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information, the research and development done and detailed in
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previous deliverables D4.1 and D4.4.
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The DECODE OS is a GNU+Linux distribution based on Devuan.org to
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provide a minimalist base for distributed computing micro-services
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capable of targeting any mainstream hardware platform, from
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virtual-machines to ARM boards to bare-metal server racks.
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The main website for this distribution is https://decodeos.dyne.org
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As part of the DECODE OS distribution, backend software applications
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have been developed to implement
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1. a front-end web application to facilitate the adoption of the
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DECODE continuous integration infrastructure (toaster)
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https://toaster.dyne.org
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2. a continuous integration system to release and customize new
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versions of DECODE OS (SDK) https://git.devuan.org/sdk
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3. a private peer-to-peer network over the Tor protocol (tor-dam)
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https://github.com/decodeproject/tor-dam
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These core features of these three components will be described in the
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following sections of this document, along with operational
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instructions.
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Due to the experimental stage of development of other components in
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DECODE and according to the LEAN principles declared in the project,
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this stable release doesn't only constitute a final point of arrival
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for this development task. What DECODE OS can do today is facilitating
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the deployment of lab-tested software applications (for example made
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in a Docker format, widely adopted by other partners in DECODE) and
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render these prototypes into a production ready format that can be
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deployed on the open-hardware DECODE BOX as well on virtual-machines.
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We consider this achievement highly beneficial for a project whose
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development is still in-flux, as well for the free and open source
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community out there, since the access to the powerful features of the
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SDK is now made very easy via an integrated continuous pipeline.
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In light of these advantages, there is a clear intention within our
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organisation (mainly by DYNE) to keep maintaining DECODE OS also
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beyond the span of the project and this very task now concluded, since
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it greatly helps the manning of prototypes into stable production
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environments.
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