[K12OSN] Project MueKow

[Jim McQuillan]

The 'Stateless Linux' thing from Fedora is nothing more than an 'Idea'
at this point. There's nobody booting a thin (or fat) client from it
yet.

I was at FUDCON1 in boston a couple weeks ago, and I sat there listening
to Havoc talk about it.  There's some cool ideas there, but they are a
long way from having anything deliverable.

Havoc's comment was:  We think that about 50% of all desktops out there
are really laptop computers, and we are working on a way to keep them
"stateless" so that if you lose a laptop, you can easily replace it.

I'm sorry, but that's just not what my experience in the desktop world
is telling me.

As the "stateless linux" project produces useable code, we'll see what
has value in our world, and what doesn't.  Then we can talk about it.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 07:34, Shawn Powers wrote:
>
> > > Just making sure I understand what you mean by locally....you mean pull
> > > the app down the pipe and use the terminals resources to run the app?
> >
> > If by "pull down the pipe" you mean launching via an nfs mounted
> > /usr/bin directory, then I think yes is the answer.
> >
> > We're still talking diskless workstations (and OMG correct me if I'm
> > wrong on that one...)
>
> The fedora 'stateless linux' project covers diskless fat client
> workstations plus various levels of automatically caching the
> OS onto local drives if you have them.  I think it would be good
> if these projects were merged so the setup would be the same
> regardless of the resources you want to use on any particular
> client. (Note that I haven't actually set up one of these so there
> may be problems in the current implementation - it just sounds
> like a good idea...)
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
>
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