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This is super cool. You could sell this as a service to IT departments. Give each customer a subdomain, let them manage their own ISOs, maybe throw in kick-start support, and you've got a real product.

Edit: and this would be a great way to build trust, your paying customers would support the public service and distribution maintainers could get official accounts on your service to distribute to their users.

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I'd be wary about using this in a professional capacity without assurances of the security of the images stored upstream and better support for SSL (this last point is more an issue with PXE clients than with the hosts).

Really where this comes into its own is for personal builds. In those situations the convenience of not having to download an ISO and burn it / whatever is an arguable reasonable trade for the potential security hole it creates. Where is in business security is more critical and builds are more frequent so the effort of downloading the latest ISO is mitigated by the frequency you may end up using it.

This last point is why many corporate networks will have their own internal imaging servers.

Most useful thing I found about netboot.xyz are the utilities. Imaging is far more useful for IT depts(from my limited exp with the matter) - for this use https://fogproject.org/ worked well for me.

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