William Beebe wrote:
How about putting this boundless energy into more timely releases ofpl note that Debian has versions Stable (1-2 yrs....like RHEL 18 months) , testing (yearly), unstable(few months ...like fedora)....
Debian?
As per RH not enough volunteers ....lots of people other people (me included)... there is lot of potential in the concept..I wrote many mails regarding the status of Stateless Linux and offering to volunteer but .....And did you ever stop to think that if stateless was dropped that there was a good reason to drop it?
No, my friend your mistaken ....Debian provides good platform ...thats why most Distro have their base on Debian than any other Distro (pl visit distro watch)Why does Debian think it has to become the technological rat hole for abandoned fringe projects? Oh, I forgot. Debian is a fringe project.
Pl note this not porting project , we aim extend the existing RH Stateless Linux Project and code will run on any Distro (like fedora or Redhat)...Debian just provides us stable platform (and many distro are based on it)
Since this project was started by RH I like will welcome anyone who is interested in joining this 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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