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Fedora Project Considering "Stateless Linux"

Posted by timothy on from the man-without-a-country dept.

Havoc Pennington writes "Red Hat developers have been working on a generic framework covering all cases of sharing a single operating system install between multiple physical or virtual computers. This covers mounting the root filesystem diskless, keeping a read-only copy of it cached on a local disk, or storing it on a live CD, among other cases. Because OS configuration state is shared rather than local, the project is called 'stateless Linux.' The post to fedora-devel-list is here, and a PDF overview is here."

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  1. Re:What's wrong with flexibility? by MacJedi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For example, if you asked me a week ago the origin of chopsticks I (like most people) would have responded China, or parts nearby. Now this totally neglects the less-than-common knowledge that they were actually created in America in the 1800s by immigrants to mining communities as a means of differentiating their restaurants from more common fare, and have caught on in Asia to the point of accounting for over 2.5% of our lumber exports!
    Where on earth did you get that bit of mis-information from? See here and here and even here.
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  2. Dammit, not another PDF... by mad.frog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look, PDF is all well and good for some purposes, but this document is NOT one of them!

    Really: this is a nine-page, all-text document, using only one font, and a tad of bold and italic.

    A plain text file would have been adequate, and HTML just dandy.

    Better yet, it wouldn't have taken 30+ seconds to loadthe freaking PDF Reader just to see that.

  3. Re:Until they fix the license by Trogre · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Democrats hate fetuses and love gays. What about gay fetuses?

    Ahhh, but can anyone really be born gay?

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  4. Re:What's wrong with flexibility? by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that a combination of Seska and T'Pol, on crack, in a hyperbaric chamber, breathing Romulan Ale, faced with Regulan bloodworms, cuddling with an attentive Klingon Targ?

    Maybe Sheetrock should read "1421: The Year China Discovered America". Now THAT is more interesting than chopsticks being invented in America. 1421 blows the doors off a lot of what we were taught in America about WHO "discovered", WHO found a cure for scurvy, WHO mastered timekeeping at sea and ashore, WHO used the North Star to navigate above the equator and WHO sailed hundreds of ships, many of which were over 5 TIMES as long as the Portuguese caravels which paled in comparison (tho they had better manoeuverability/maneuverability than the Chinese junks....)

    1421 is so hot MLK library in SJ has all its copies checked out/unavailable... At least I bought my own copy.

    Yep, read 1421...

    No, I'n not on synthehol, either. (But, at abotu age 3 I did almost die after having swallowed:

    Xylene
    Aerosol Detergent
    and Carbon Tetrachloride

    AKA Ampex Stereo (used by funky Reel-to-Reel freaks of the 60's) Headcleaner (yep, the same Ampex off Hwy 101 in Menlo Park, CA)...)

    I still have the can as a souvenir... back then the USPS used to allow that shit to be airmailed...

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  5. combining two projects... by js290 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    sounds like they are combining OpenSSI and DRBL.

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