Summary

Introduction

Preliminaries

• Architecture
• Source code, Building, and Installation
• Running on an emulated device
• Glossary

User and Administration Guide

• System overview
• The System Bus: syndicate-server
  • Configuration language
  • Services and service dependencies
  • Built-in services and service classes
    • Gatekeeper
    • Logging
    • TCP/IP, WebSocket and Unix-socket Transports
    • Configuration watcher
    • Daemons and external programs
• Configuration files and directories
• How-to …
  • Define services and service classes
  • Restart services
  • Schedule one-off or repeating tasks
  • Manage user settings
  • Reboot and power off the machine
  • Suspend the machine

Tools

• The preserves-tools package

Programming Guide and Reference

• Preserves
• Working with schemas
• Capturing and rendering interaction traces

Programming Libraries

• Python support libraries
• Shell-scripting libraries

Protocols and Schema Definitions

• Preserves schemas
  • Preserves Schema metaschema
  • Preserves Path schema
• Syndicated Actor Model schemas
  • “Observe” assertions
  • Patterns over assertions
  • Gatekeeper and Sturdy-references
  • Wire-protocol
  • Service dependencies
  • Tracing
  • Transport addresses
• Synit schemas
  • Audio control
  • Telephony (call and SMS) support
  • Modem support
  • MIME type support
  • Network core status and configuration
  • Sound effects
  • Time stamps
  • User interface definitions and interaction
  • User settings

Specifications and Theory

• Syndicated Actor Model
• Protocol specification
• Breaking Down the System Layer

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