RE: Upcoming PXES 1.0 WISHLIST

 
Dear Santa Diego,

as I was a good boy most of the year, here's my wishlist for V1.0:
(I don't add those points already mentioned by others as I hope there
will be a real poll about that - or do you measure it on replies to sent
in mails? Then I have to do another reply to this ;) )

- support for HDD-Install. The installation could be done via a
DHCP-Process. So a client would first try to get a DHCP-Server, if it
fails it just boots its local image. If it succeeds it checks against a
value on the DHCP-Server if it is lower or greater than the one stored
on the HDD. Dependent on that a new image is loaded from the web and
stored to the local disk or the current one is loaded. If there's no
image on the disk a first time install will be done via the net (and not
via boot disks or boot cds). This would make the deployment of PXES very
easy :) I've made up some ideas around that and could help you with the
realisation.

- to do the above (and many more things): Subversion (or any other
Versioning system) support :) So it's easier to add customization wishes
and actually to share work on the actual fork of PXES.

- PKI Authentification. This would make it possible to establish PXES in
companies careing about high security
- VPN support
- support for Dialup-Networks
- save local config to USB-Stick support. So if a client boots and an
USB-Stick is detected holding some config this is loaded (for example
connection parameters for a RDP- or ICA-Connection)
- better adjustability of pxesconfig (although that could be a lack of
my understanding of GtkPerl ;) )


Christmassy greetings,
Sascha.


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