“Linux distributors SuSE and MandrakeSoft are to back a
little-known French IT operation Linbox’s attempt to define the
open source OS as a standard for network computing.
The two distributors will promote something called the
Linbox Network Architecture (LNA), a diskless client/server
set-up. Right now, LNA comprises Linbox’s NetServer hardware,
which already ships with SuSE and Mandrake versions of Linux, and
up to 32 diskless NetStation clients hanging off it. Users can run
Linux applications on the client, loaded off the server, or on the
server itself.
However, LNA systems could easily be built around hardware from
other vendors, and ultimately even using software from other Linux
distributors. SuSE, MandrakeSoft and Linbox plan to promote LNA
as an open standard.”