• @davidgro
    13•17 hours ago

    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

    • Badabinski
      5•11 hours ago

      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.