Diskless Booting For the Modern Age 99
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder what happened to PXE? Intel's popular standard for diskless booting hasn't been updated since 1999, and has missed out on such revolutions as wireless Ethernet, cloud computing, and iSCSI. An open source project called Etherboot has been trying to drag PXE into the 21st century. One of their programmers explains how to set up diskless booting for your cloud, using copy-on-write to save space."
Re:How is it slow? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Cloud? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Cloud? (Score:2, Insightful)
I guess you've never heard of Applescript ;P
Re:Cloud? (Score:1, Insightful)
Warning / Rant: The last 5 years of computing have been pretty lame. Concurrency and solutions to it using functional high-level languages are the future. That's where we should have been five years ago
But five years later, that's not where we are; the world moved into a different direction. What are you going to do? You can either cling to your ideas and refuse to give them up, or accept reality and try to improve what we've got now, instead of what should have been but isn't.
Example: Plan 9 and Inferno. Much better than Unix, but didn't go anywhere. Pity? Yes, but it's futile to still hope for a takeover that'll never come.