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Technical Details Behind the LAN-Party Optimized House

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-you-take-requests dept.

New submitter Temporal writes "Yesterday, Slashdot reported on my LAN-party optimized house. But, lacking from the internet at that time were key technical details: How do I boot 12 machines off a single shared disk? What software do I use? What does my network infrastructure look like? Why do I have such terrible furniture? Is that Gabe Newell on the couch? The answer is a combination of Linux, PXE boot, gPXE, NBD/iSCSI, and LVM snapshots running on generic hardware over generic gigabit ethernet. I have even had several successful LAN parties with a pure-Linux setup, using WINE."

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  1. It stands to reason that... by Fallingcow · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...plenty of wine would make a Linux-centric LAN party tolerable, and perhaps even enjoyable.

  2. Re:Dude, that's lame by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like you went public beta before working out the kinks~

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  3. God dammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every computer using geek has an Asian girlfriend except me.

    How they fuck do they do it?

    You have to be white, nerdy, and socially awkward. I've got all three! Come hither, ladies!

  4. Re:Dude, that's lame by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Release early, release often. I thought that was the way we're supposed to work.

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  5. Re:Haha ... by misexistentialist · · Score: 5, Funny

    And afterwards you lit a cigar with a hundred-dollar bill.

  6. Re:Dude, that's lame by hpa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As the author of Syslinux/PXELINUX I found the article rather interesting and enjoyable. :)