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I’m surprised existing systems weren’t mentioned.
Booting from the network has been a thing since the 80s and is now standardized, I guess the main ‘new’ thing here is using https instead of tftp
Speaking from personal experience, tftp is a terrible protocol so I’m here for it. A lot of tftp’s terribleness is due to the simplicity of the protocol in general and it can be forgiven for that since it makes implementing a tftp server/client on marginal hardware really easy. Pre-boot environments are powerful enough now that I think we can use something a bit better.
Even as a systemd user I’m starting to feel the kitchen sink creep in
What a load of bloat. NetBSD has a whole guide on diskless booting various machines, none of this shit is new.
