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netboot.me in the news

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:27:03 UT

HowtoForge has a nice howto on using netboot.me:
[link]

Rolling back latest bootloader update

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:45:42 UT

Due to some reported issues booting the new bootloader on some systems, I'm
rolling it back from the new version (netboot.me version 0.2) to the
previous one (netboot.me version 0.1.1) until the issues are sorted out.

Nethack now available

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:08:40 UT

Nethack is now a boot option, under a new category, 'Games'. Thanks to
Dominik for supplying the handcrafted boot image. Look out for other
roguelikes in the near future. If you have a game you'd like to see on the
menu, build an image and let us know!

New release of netboot.me bootloader

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:29 UT

A new release of the netboot.me bootloader is now available on the downloads
page. This is currently an optional upgrade, but will become required to
boot in the near future. When it becomes required, anyone booting will have
the new bootloader downloaded automatically on each boot - so you may want

Out with CoralCDN, in with CloudFront

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:08:54 UT

Since CoralCDN seems to have significant issues when fetching not-yet-
cached files, we've disabled CoralCDN, and are now trying Amazon's
CloudFront. As always, comments and feedback are appreciated in the
official group.

Content distribution via CoralCDN

arach...@notdot.net (Nick Johnson) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:26:30 UT

We're experimenting with using CoralCDN ([link]) for
distributing kernels and other boot files. Hopefully the improved
latency should improve download speeds for users around the world.

Please let us know how effectively this works for you - or even if it
degrade performance - on the official group at