[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

Walter Stanish walter.stanish at saffrondigital.com
Thu Nov 19 10:58:13 UTC 2009


> At the BBC the Unix team built everything from their desks, via serial
> consoles and netbooting, but occasionally we'd need to venture down to
> the datacentre, where we'd see the Windows engineers in coats installing
> by cdrom.

A lovely tale!

I agree that in my experience net booting, for all the up front
configuration that may be required, is such a brilliant way to deploy
systems.

Complete control, no maintenance issues, lower hardware costs.... 
total win!

More people should try this.

- Walter
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