stateless linux project status

[Jason Powers]

The diskless method has potential applications here, we had a hell of a 
time getting LTSP up by itself but this was pretty easy in comparison. 
Also, the way it stores the snapshots may potentially be useful for me 
to hold images for Win2k desktops, and that would mean we wouldn't have 
to spend $$ on ghost.

Other than the documentation being out of date and the PXE Generation 
script being utterly nonfunctional out of the box and requiring X for 
the config scripts and the idea of having to turn on rsync on every 
machine on my LAN being a little scary, it's a good idea.

I'd offer to help but I'm still a novice when it comes to python, I'm 
not sure my code would stand up. However, when I complete my current 
project (getting your builds of openldap/openssl/postgresql working 
together smoothly), Stateless is next on my list which puts it about 
mid-January.

I do hope you have people work on it, the configuration process needs 
extensive testing, the documentation needs to be updated WITH the code 
and the little bugs in the process could be worked out - there are 
complications inherent in a lot of the dependencies (ldap, dhcp) that 
would take minds much sharper than mine to fix, but I see working on the 
scripts as they are as being a good challenge as I learn more python.

I do appreciate redhat's support of these projects, I've learned a lot 
about linux and computers in general by working with your OSes over the 
past 6 years. Like a lot of people I just wish I could devote a little 
more of my workday to making Fedora better, but every time Lotus or 
another application is set to 'RHEL only,' Fedora has less and less 
opportunity in the workplace to justify people spending work-time on it, 
I end up spending time I could be working on these projects on finding 
the right compat-libs for Lotus, for Oracle, for SAS and SPLUS. Having 
community-developed support for thosewould be a useful project in its 
own right.

Jason

Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:00 +0000, Peter Schobel wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I have seen next to nothing on this list recently from stateless linux
>>> developers
>>>
>>> What is the status of this project? Is it in active development?
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It isn't in active development right now; the initial release was a
>> prototype to gather data on what people thought of the idea.
>>
>> Now we are looking at the feedback and looking at overall Red Hat
>> priorities and have to decide whether to create a project team to
>> continue with stateless Linux (and related technology). If we do decide
>> to continue then there will probably be a number of people working on
>> it.
>>
>> Of course nothing is stopping others outside Red Hat from working on it,
>> would love to see it.
>>
>> Havoc
>>
>>  
>>
> I hope they do continue it.  I think this project really has promise!   
> I'm not much of a developer, but I'm a willing tester, and happy to help 
> out where I can!
> 
> Carlos
>