Re: Stateless Debian Project

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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
> 
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