Ten years ago, on December 21st, 1999, Thomas Lange announced the release of version 1.0 of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).
The tool was developed at the University of Cologne, because the author was too lazy to install Debian on 16 hosts manually. FAI now also supports the installation of Ubuntu and RPM-based Linux distributions. It is used worldwide in very different environments [1]; even installations on two zSeries z10 mainframes are reported. A detailed report in German about the 10 years of the FAI project can be found at [2]. [1]: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/reports/ [2]: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/otherdocs/10jahre.html -- regards Thomas
