PXES Version 0.5: pxe by Diego Torres Milano < diego@in3.com.ar > Copyright © 2001-2003. All rights reserved. This software is free software under the GNU General Public License.

PXE explainded

PXE is part of an Intel initiative called Wired for Management.

As explained in Intel's site:

“Over the last several years, the PC industry has rallied around the Wired for Management (WfM) initiative. This has resulted in millions of PCs enabled with built-in features that offer valuable manageability functionality, including instrumentation, use of the network as a boot device, remote wake-up, and power management. These standards-based features have also been embraced and supported by numerous suppliers of manageability software and operating systems.”

Check the intel site (http://www.intel.com/labs/manage/wfm/index.htm) for details.

PXE was born to support Pcs mainly as fat clients, enabling the installation of the OS from the network. Although, PXE is used here as a way to boot the diskless thin client.

Resources

http://www.intel.com

http://www.intel.com/labs/manage/wfm/wfmspecs.htm

ftp://download.intel.com//labs/manage/wfm/download/pxespec.pdf