23 | | ''The lead management system is based on a simple web interface that lets you perform common tasks for managing software distribution to individual customers. However, OpenGNSys structure is versatile enough to suit the needs of different computer network architectures available in companies and institutions. '' |
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25 | | ''OpenGNSys consists of a set of separate modules in different layers of services.'' |
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27 | | * ''The lower layer is responsible for direct access to client devices and to cloning engine library.'' |
28 | | * ''A middle layer consists of a set of tools to perform complex tasks and customizing the environment. '' |
29 | | * ''The management and administration layer consists of the web interface and database management. '' |
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31 | | ''Specific processes and modify configuration data from each customer can be made directly once the process dump of the image, without booting the operating system, go directly to information stored on disks. This is a significant advantage over other similar products, including commercials solutions.'' |
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33 | | ''In the current state of the project, allowed the cloning and deployment of Windows operating systems (including Windows 7) to FAT32 and NTFS filesystems, and Linux distributions with ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystems.'' |
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35 | | ''Some of the main aspects of the future line of work are OpenGNSys management capacity of redundant disks (RAID), logical volumes and be able to clone and deploy other operating systems. The latter involves support new types of filesystems.'' |
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37 | | ''The distribution of images and files should be as flexible as possible, implementing different networks protocols, as Unixast, Multicast and P2P, and even also be provided with such information off-line (without communication with the server) go directly the local data cache for each client or an external storage device. '' |
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39 | | ''By definition, OpenGNSys is a Free Software project. As such, all code is licensed under GPLv3 or later, while the associated documentation is available under Creative Commons license. '' |
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41 | | ''OpenGNSys is the result of the integration of 3 previous projects developed in different universities: '' |
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43 | | * ''Brutalix (Universidad de Zaragoza) '' |
44 | | * ''EAC (Universidad de Málaga)'' |
45 | | * ''Hydra (Universidad de Sevilla)'' |
| 23 | '''Keywords''': ''cloning, deployment, operating systems, modular architecture, IT learning environments.'' |