Second try: Clarification of statement about stateless sytem]

[Rick Stevens]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I tried once and got no response so I am trying again. It is strange
> that people understand all such obscure things but can't explain one of
> the many gobbledygook statements made in the release notes.
> 
> In section 2.2.6 of the F10 release notes is the following statement:
> 
> Support for keeping a persistent /home with the rest of the system
> stateless has been added for Fedora 10.
> 
> I don't understand that statement? Could someone explain it, especially
> the meaning of the words persistent and stateless in that context.

It means that you can put your /home directory on a USB stick, which
allows you to run various LiveCD versions and they'll use the /home on
the USB stick rather than creating a /home in the ramdisk as LiveCD 
normally does.

"stateless system" in this context means that you're running off
different LiveCD environments (not one on real media), "persistent
/home" means that /home is on real media and is consistent regardless of
the OS being run.

"That's just my opinion...I could be wrong." -- Dennis Miller
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