FOG Project mentions (69)

• Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?

  I heard about devbox [1] but I haven't tried it yet. Perhaps it could suit your needs. Back in the day I used "Norton Ghost" to create a full image of a just-installed windows just in case I needed to go back in time. Windows includes a snapshot feature built-in but I did not really trusted it. These days you can use a "sysprep" tool [2] to create a similar system snapshot. Make a partition and keep everything you... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Have i made my own linux distro? ^_^

  For provisioning the machines base image consider FOG it uses PXE and can remotely provision dozens of machines using multicast. Source: 6 months ago

• New machines with bloatware.

  Same. We set up 1 device how we want to, then use FOG to clone the other devices. Source: 6 months ago

• How to : Proxmox Windows VM to discard changes after reboot

  With standard computers, I usually deploy something like the fog project and automate the process over pxe with scheduled reboots. I guess you could do that as well with your VMs but that seems overkill. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best procedure to run a small computer lab.

  You could setup a PXE server and automate installs. You could also clone them and reapply the image as needed. https://fogproject.org/ or lookup CloneZilla both are open source. Source: about 1 year ago

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