Category: General

02/25/05

FSU as thesis project?

I had some talk with Michiel Ronsse, co-founder of this FSU-project. We thought it could be nice to create a thesis project of Stateless Linux development. He's going to introduce it at some promotors. Let's hope it'll be OK. I don't know if I should take it if they create it. I'm very interested in that, but I also found some other stuff I'm interested in. I'm also afraid it could be a little bit too complex. But you never know, we'll see.

He also told me about some filesystem, cachefs, that's included in Solaris. It's not ported to linux.

Permalink . Peter . 23:17:11 . 100 Words . General . Email . No views

02/18/05

This could be some great news, whether we're going to work with or without Fedora Stateless Linux. Let's hope this one stays maintained ;-)

I do wonder why they wait for the Netscape Directory Server being open sourced, whilst we already got OpenLdap.

Permalink . Ikke . 02:13:30 pm . 65 Words . General . . No views

01/28/05

I just recieved this message through the fedora-devel-list. The goal is to boot Fedora Core 3 by PXE and mount root from NFS (readonly). Maybe an interessting alternative for in case we can't get the real stateless working. It isn't that good, I think, no caching for example, but maybe it could be nice to temporaly provide such an installation to provide an easy management and configuration of all clients. Also interesting for some testing purposes before installing the real stateless, if we have to wait till some improvements and continuation of that project. An option to think about!

Permalink . Peter . 19:54:24 . 98 Words . Project status and progress, General . Email . No views

01/15/05

FC4 schedule released, google

Today, Bill Nothingham from RedHat announced with this message on the fedora-devel-list the release of the schedule for Fedora Core 4. He asked for proposals wich software should be included, you can follow the reactions here. Bryam, another member of that list, also asked after the Stateless Linux project for FC4. Let's hope there comes some reaction from devs, not only from within RedHat, that they want to continu development of that nice project.

At 21 feb, FC4 Test 1 should be released. We can see if Fedora Stateless is still included then.

Some other news: even till a week after this server went down, we were the first result when asked google for "fedora stateless" and you could see these messages by googles caching function. Now, this blog is up again, but we dissapeared from google results. Let's hope we come back soon again, so more people read this and maybe someone could help us or gets helped by reviewing our experiences.

Permalink . Peter . 03:46:32 . 160 Words . General . Email . No views

01/05/05

Fedora Stateless development

Yeah! Finally this blog is up again! Don't blame me, Jens or ikke, it wasn't our fault :-p

With that downtime, I hadn't the possibility to post a quite important message that could change our plans drastically and even could stop our project. As you can see in this message on the fedora-devel-list, the Fedora Stateless project isn't in active development right now. At RedHat, they're thinking about the future of the whole project. They don't know yet if they'll continue the project. I think the goals of this project are fantastic so I hope they continue it! It could be a very nice system and a great help for sysadmins of public computers, like in universities or libraries, even in companies. There could even be a nice future for it in the thin clients Hitachi is introducing. On this article (or this one for dutchspeaking people) you can see Hitachi wants to protect the information that's now stored on the notebooks of their employees by creating a thin client with no harddisk so all information must be stored on a server. In that way, a client running fedora stateless could be a more nice solution because all program's run on the computer of the employee and information is stored on the server by network mount. A big advantage is that you can use standard computers for this purpose.

So, let's hope they continue the whole project. And if they continue it, RedHat will place a number of people working on it.

If they don't continue, then I don't know what to do with our project. Just give up and stop the whole project? Restart from the beginning with an X-environment and hope we can create a working system? Others already did it, as I've seen on the fedora-devel-list. I don't know. Let's hope future will bring some good news.

Permalink . Peter . 18:02:37 . 310 Words . Project status and progress, General . Email . No views

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