From: Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:10:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41fa14b2b3ee401c05933f42d1a0c76d@waegenei.re> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dz1fn7a.fsf@ponder>
Hello Vagrant,
On 2020-03-30 23:16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I was just thinking Guix needed network boot support yesterday! Happy
> to
> hear you're looking into it...
>
> I've been the LTSP maintainer in Debian for almost 15 years, so have a
> good amount of experience with network booting. LTSP was rewritten from
> scratch last year and there might be elements of it useful to you:
>
> https://ltsp.org
>
> None of it is scheme code, but there are possibly some useful ideas in
> there you could make use of. One of the big changes is making extensive
> use of iPXE, though that might need some further auditing to meet the
> FSDG (Free Software Distribution Guidelines?) for inclusion into Guix.
I see the rewrite has been done during a GSoC too; it's interesting that
it
has mostly been done in shell. It looks like a interesting project, I'll
keep reading...
- Brice
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-15 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-30 21:44 [GSOC 2020] Booting via network Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-30 22:10 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-04-15 18:57 ` Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-15 20:09 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-03-30 23:16 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-04-10 13:44 ` iPXE network booting (was Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network) Giovanni Biscuolo
2020-04-12 18:01 ` Vincent Legoll
2020-04-15 19:33 ` Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-15 19:10 ` Brice Waegeneire [this message]
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