[Etherboot-developers] Re: Etherboot in Linux Journal publications

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 12/21/2001 9:39 AM Richard C Ferri rc...@us... wrote:
>Marty, everyone,
>      I wrote the article in LinuxJournal regarding booting linux remotely.
>I didn't mean to mis-represent etherboot in any way -- in fact I am an avid
>etherboot user.  Since I work on commodity clusters, I don't use the
>ability to write etherboot to BIOS -- in our clusters we use either
>etherboot from diskette or PXE.

Richard,

Thanks very much for your message!  It is gratifying to know that 
Etherboot is being used extensively in your work, and thanks also for the 
pointers to other projects that use Etherboot.

We've exhibited at the last two LinuxWorld Expo conferences and we plan 
to do so again in New York at the end of January 2002.  I hope you'll be 
able to attend and visit us in our booth.  I and Markus Gutschke (one of 
the original Etherboot authors) will be there.  Ken was at the last show 
in San Francisco, but can't make the New York show this time.

One funny thing that happens when we go to shows is that business people  
always come up and ask us "What's your business plan?".  We smile, and 
usually say something like "nobody beats us on price!".  The funny thing 
is that we actually have no real budget, business plan, or venture 
capital.  We do what we do because we find in rewarding and useful in 
some way.  That folks like yourself use it in your work is warms my 
heart. Knowing that drivers that I have written are running somewhere 
also makes me smile.

Rom-o-matic.net generated over 50,000 Etherboot images in its first year, 
and is on track to do even more this year. I expect at least 75,000, or 
1500 a week.  Clearly Ken's "hobby project" is doing quite nicely :)

Anyway, thanks again for your kind message, and thanks for spreading the 
word about our efforts, and those of our friends at LTSP.org.

Regards,

Marty

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