Red Hat: "Stateless Linux" Project | Linux Today

Red Hat: “Stateless Linux” Project

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 14, 2004

[ Thanks to Havoc
Pennington
for this link. ]

“Red Hat engineering is starting a new project we’re calling
‘stateless Linux’ for lack of a better name–some components of
this are already in Rawhide, and others will be appearing
shortly…

“There aren’t many new RPMs for this, because stateless Linux
isn’t a single codebase or package, it’s a set of changes across
the distribution (you might think of it as a “philosophy”). Most of
the changes are already in Rawhide (the highlights are mentioned in
the StatelessLinux.pdf document)…”


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