Commit 159a16ed authored by Jacoba Neighbourhood's avatar Jacoba Neighbourhood Committed by Mattia Rizzolo
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docs(vmd): keep gitian info and link bitcoin transition plan 

where they plan to switch from Gitian to Guix
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Gitian

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[Gitian](https://gitian.org/) is a tool that either runs in a Linux

container using LXC, or in a virtual machine using KVM.

[Gitian](https://gitian.org/) is a secure source-control oriented

software distribution method. The Gitian Builder

[was previously used by Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/21145)

for deterministic builds for about 10 years.



Gitian takes descriptors as input which tell which base GNU/Linux

It either runs in a Linux container using LXC, or in a virtual machine using

KVM. Gitian takes descriptors as input which tell which base GNU/Linux

distribution to use, which packages to install, which Git remotes to

fetch, which other input files to use, and a build script to be run

with all of that. As explained earlier, using a virtual machine helps