From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 25 20:08:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23796 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:08:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ingenieria ([168.176.15.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA23789 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co by ingenieria (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA27723; Sun, 25 May 1997 22:54:37 -0400 Message-ID: <338919C7.F30@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 22:04:07 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Experience with Network Computers ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (I'm not really sure where this should go, redirect it as necessary) Howdy, I've been wondering about those NCs that everyone is talking about. It is said they don't come with an OS, and that you need a server. Could this server be a FreeBSD box? How do they load the OS, bootp or an unstandard service? TIA, Pedro.