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PXE Imaging server?

Tired of using thumb drives to install Linux on new computers and I wanna install stuff via pxe. Do we have options in the open source world?

Work uses KACE so I'm used to that interface, but its expensive and ass.

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Debian has some instructions here, maybe it can be used for other platforms as well.
https://fogproject.org/
It does the full imaging process, not just pxe booting, but I'm sure you can use it just for that.
- When I last tried to setup openwrt+iPXE I kept ending up on their forum but I don't get what are they actually for ? Is that just a netbootable disk imaging thing ? Live OS netbooting ? Installer netbooting ?
  Is it like iVentoy the non-open source netbootable version of ventoy ?
  
  Its named FOG because it is a "free, open-source (Norton) Ghost." It uses iPXE to netboot a minimal Linux environment that can clone or restore a hard disk image. It includes a web UI for managing machines and disk images, among other things. There is also a client you can install on machines to remotely administer them.
  It is very similar to DRBL/Clonezilla but for a slightly different purpose.
My favorite has been https://netboot.xyz/
Honestly i use my openwrt router, and Tinkerbell (pxe boot services deployed and managed from kubernetes!). Ubuntus MaaS had a really straight forward set and gui too.

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