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Fedora Project Considering "Stateless Linux"
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."
Fedora -- astro-turfing linux to new heights.
Monoculture rulez!!!!!
News flash! Redhat is *paying* companies to generate a bunch of community hype around Fedora. This includes the many /. postings.
They're faking a grass roots movement around fedora, and that is astro-turfing. These tactics are not acceptable. Investigate before you choose a linux distro!
Redhat: the Redmond of linux.
You are awesome. He always has something cool to say. I would recommend anyone to read blogs.redhat.com daily and see whats going on over at redhat. In particular, you can read Havoc's log and other cool stuff here. My favorite is his editorial on "Why free software maintainers are so stuborn".
Regards,
Steve
It is exactly this lack of perception that demonstrates the extent to which the impact of history's lessons on the business world are trivialized by our public school systems. 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!
The ramifications are intriguing, not the least of which are our dwindling natural resources and the need to choose the path of innovation rather than exploitation with regards to manufacturing; in this case, the substitution of "spokes" -- recyclable plastic chopsticks -- for conventional oak or cherry chopsticks where disposability is a factor.
Do we continue to promote a business model whose short-term gains outstrip the long-term ones? Or do we invest in discovering new trends, occasionally losing our bets and occasionally hitting it big? I submit to you that only the latter has driven mankind's growth -- despite the apparent short-term risks -- and that to content yourself to following the leader is a sure road to stagnation and ultimately failure.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
Time and time again, I read about various advancements in Linux in this area or that. Most of the time it amounts to catching up to Mac and Windows or something else that has already been done elsewhere. And there's NOTHING wrong with it. If we want to be able to do something, we should be able to do it.
But the one thing [anti-linux] people keep saying is that Linux is all about being a copy-cat and nothing about innovation, new development new technologies or new ideas.
Recently, along with this and some other projects mentioned on Slashdot, I think there is a visible trend where people are actually starting to create "new things" and protoyping new ideas. Recall the idea of the database filesystem? Microsoft has been putting it on the back-burner for a VERY long time and now there is at least one open source project surrounding the idea. Now there's this fairly neat idea of making a Linux client made "pretty thin."
Frankly, I love the idea and am ready to build two more machines to test it out... one as the app server and the other as the client machine. Should be great fun!