On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there an open source, or free solution where I can run a server, put my > own images on it, and it will allow each laptop boot a different image via > PXE based on MAC?
Most modern general-purpose Linux distributions include everything you need for the PXE process. They typically don't have a working system, though; just the pieces you need to build it yourself. But LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) can supply pre-built configurations. It can turn those laptops into network-booting, diskless clients. LTSP can run most Linux applications, allowing either running on the diskless client itself, or using the client as an X11 (Linux networkable GUI) display. There are RDP clients. It worked pretty well, last I tried it. <http://www.ltsp.org/> That sound like what you're looking for? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
