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Submission + - Diskless Booting Making a Comeback? (ksplice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 06, 2010 @03:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: Ever wonder what happened to PXE? Intel's popular standard for diskless booting hasn't been updated since 1999, and has missed out on such revolutions as wireless Ethernet, cloud computing and iSCSI. An open-source project called Etherboot has been trying to drag PXE into the 21st century. One of their programmers explains how to set up diskless booting for your cloud, using copy-on-write to save space.

Comment Re:playing compressed video (Score 2, Informative) 31

by josh42 on Friday April 07, 2006 @05:23PM (#15087972) Attached to: Installing iPodLinux on the iPod Nano

The iPod video has a special decoding chip for compressed video. It's a BCM2722, if I recall correctly. (And we still don't know how to work it.) The nano doesn't have that chip, so playing compressed video on it is going to be much, much harder, maybe impossible. We're working on it though. -- Josh

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