Stateless Linux (as RHEL understands) is just a distro that boots off the network to diskless terminals. I am testing it and, I must say, the latest Fedora 4 and its system-config-netboot tool looks pretty promising.
You install Fedora normally on harddrive, copy the whole installation to a NFS server, do a small hack to the init scripts and here you are - you can boot it from whichever machine without installation. It looks nice but it is completely different approach from the LTSP - you are running the whole distro locally on a machine that does not have any harddrives. Imagine you have multiple compute servers running the same or very similar configuration. Right now, you have to install each separately and patch separately. In the short future, however, you will have a possibility to install it just once and all machines will share the same installation. You save on licenses, HW support and your time. Ondrej Jim McQuillan wrote: >Hey guys, Interesting article on internetnews.com about redhat's >direction regarding thin clients and virtualization. > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3560881 > >Jim McQuillan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF.Net email is sponsored by: >Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download >it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own >Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php >_____________________________________________________________________ >Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
