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/dev/SDB: Software Defined Boot -- A novel standard for diskless booting anywhere and everywhere

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20629v1
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:07:18 GMT
Title: /dev/SDB: Software Defined Boot -- A novel standard for diskless booting anywhere and everywhere
Abstract summary: /dev/SDB aims at creating a standard where any user, anyone on the globe, can access the operating system authorized to them without having to be on the corporate network.<n>It aims to offer the same over Wi-Fi as well as cellular connectivity, ensuring employees can truly work from anywhere.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Abstract: A computer is nothing but a device that processes the instructions supplied to it. However, as computers evolved, the instructions or codes started to be more complicated. As computers started to be used by non-technical people, it became imperative that the users be able to use the machine without having underlying knowledge of the code or the hardware. And operating system became the backbone for translating the inputs from the user to actual operation on the hardware. With the increasing complexity and the choices of operating system, it became clear that different groups of people, especially in an enterprise scenario, required different operating systems. Installing them all on a single machine, for shared computers became a difficult task, giving rise to network-based booting. But network-based booting was confined to only wired connectivity, keeping it restricted to very small geographical areas. The proposed system, /dev/SDB, is aimed at creating a standard where any user, anyone on the globe, can access the operating system authorized to them without having to be on the corporate network. It aims to offer the same over Wi-Fi as well as cellular connectivity, ensuring employees can truly work from anywhere, while following the policies for operating systems and without redundant hardware.

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