How about putting this boundless energy into more timely releases of Debian? And did you ever stop to think that if stateless was dropped that there was a good reason to drop it? Why does Debian think it has to become the technological rat hole for abandoned fringe projects? Oh, I forgot. Debian is a fringe project. On 5/3/05, gaurav <gauravp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > We have just initiated Stateless Debian Project and we are looking for > active volunteers/developers > Detail of project are given below > > Summary > This project was started by Fedora (Redhat) but is no longer in active > development and will not be included in next release of fc4 , this > projects aims to provide longterm commitment to the concept & port it to > 100% community based distro like Debian > > Stateless Linux converts normal Linux desktop/clients to Stateless > machines or appliances, which means if throw your computer out of window > you still will be able to get exactly same same settings/data when you log > from any other pc in the network ....A single administrator can easily > manage network thousands of desktops ...Stateless Linux centralizes the > state in a Gold server (different from CFengine) and rest of clients > are updated regularly from it . This is different from thin clients as > local processing power and memory of clients is used (or cached client) > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/statelessdebian/ > Project Goals > > 1) Port relevant parts of RH State Linux (http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/stateless/) to Debian > 2)Extend/integrate/enhance Stateless Linux thru existing projects like DBRL > http://drbl.sourceforge.net/debian/wiki-view/pmwiki-view.php/DRBL/WhatIsDRBL <http://drbl.sourceforge.net/debian/wiki-view/pmwiki-view.php/DRBL/WhatIsDRBL> > and Debian CCD infrastructure, FAI (Fully Automated Installation,http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/) > 3) Add cluster support and node monitoring and autonomic capabilities > 4)Meets most of OSDL Desktop Linux specification > 5) Long term community based , vendor neutral project > 6) Member of "Move 2 Debian" project > 7) Latter (2nd phase )Add p2p support for directory support(DHT), file storage and retrieval(tuples), state transfer (Bittorent) > to elinimate any need of centralized servers/infrastructure and make it highly scalable (to millions!!) > > Right now this project is in pre beta stage and we are preparing Stateless Linux White paper and started porting portions of RH Stateless Linux to Debian . > Any Suggestions/Ideas will appreciated :-) ..if anyone is interested from this list then pl let me know > > Regards, > Gaurav > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
