Stateless Linux

Paul Sery pgsery at swcp.com
Fri Mar 25 04:55:25 UTC 2005


Yup. Red Hat is missing out on a large niche. There's a big movement to 
convert
to diskless thinclients whereever possible. If RH doesn't do it, then 
someone else will.

-Paul Sery

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:

> Well maybe Red Hat should talk to they have been selling to  in the US
> Government networks. There is a major need for a packaged conformed
> stateless linux product for various networks. The defense department
> and energy departments are needing to put 1000's of computers as
> diskless nodes. Having say RHEL-4 with a stateless station should be a
> good selling point.
>
> Stephen J. Smoogen
>
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:56:38 +0000, Peter Dedecker
>> <Peter Dedecker vtk2 ugent be> wrote:
>>
>>> Gaurav wrote:
>>> >        I am interested in stateless Linux project  and would like to
>>> > volunteer  for its beta tester ... I will try roll this out in my
>>> > brother's school and after that  co workers on my office plus also 
>>> would
>>> > like to contribute to its development ....help it to take to next 
>>> level :-)
>>>
>>> Nice
>>>
>>> > I would like to know what state this project is in ? is anybody 
>>> involved
>>> > in active testing/ testing development ? Do you need beta tester ...
>>>
>>> It isn't in active development right now.  At Red Hat, they don't even
>>> know if they'll continue it.  But if they continue it, there'll be a
>>> team working on it.
>>>




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