Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network

[Brice Waegeneire]

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