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OpenSLX - the name is rather fresh - aims on the Linux desktop as a middleware solution to provide easy administration of large bunchs of computers. The project might be of interest in a wide field of utilization: schools , education, universities, grid clusters, corporations with a lot of office workplaces, ... An OpenSLX client is just a Linux workstation as you would expect, if you have installed just any distribution onto the local disk. The average user will not see any difference ...
DNBD (Distributed Network Block Device) is a read-only and caching network block device specially developed with stateless/diskless Linux client operation in mind. See more on stateless Linux at OpenSLX. DNBD supports following main features: * Replication of servers for robustness * Multicast communication and caching of network traffic for scalability These characteristics make it suitable especially for use in wireless networks, e.g. for diskless/stateless clients or to share multimedia files in such an environment. The servers can export a file or block device equipped with a operating system, movies, music, etc. Several clients can import the block device and access it like a local hard disk. However, each block transfer over the network can be cached by all clients: If several users on each client start to watch a movie within a certain time interval, the movie data has to be transmitted only once (depending on the cache size).
