On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 12:59 +0300, Rocco Radisch wrote: > With DRBL you can have a PIXIE set-up up & running within 30min.
Getting thing running is the easy part: Mount a livecd and serve it with dhcpd/tftp/NFS. It may be: - getting bit complex if you wish to do accounting and homedirs. - getting more complex to be able to adapt, update and maintain your setup. And differents needs require different solutions... The pixie setup as described works well for me, but depends on time and skill. I would not recommend it if your are absolute beginner and have interested in learning about build systems. A medior to senior admin would be able to build some thing like this in any distro. My idea was to build something that: - highly adaptable - well mainainable (including userland/initrd/kernel security updates) - performs well - no file locking for the operating system (squashfs + aufs and tmpfs) But, as for any distro, it may some time to learn to it well. So customizing takes time/skill. IMHO is harder to learn from prefab tools than to start from scratch on, but that may be very personal.... It look like the Fatclient approach from Ubuntu is very similar and has a larger user base so that it also interesting.... I would nice bundle up pixie/U-fatclient with FreeNAS, Pfsense and GOsa (openldap,kerberos and PHP). :) 2 ct, Marten _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
