Free and Open-source
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Ghost
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), is a suite of
software tool
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Microsoft Windows
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and
Linux
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using the
Preboot Execution Environment
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iPXE
iPXE is an open-source implementation of the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) client software and bootloader, created in 2010 as a fork of gPXE (gPXE was named Etherboot until 2008). It is written in PHP.
The configuration tool developed by the FOG Project makes it possible to do remote system administration of the computers in a network. FOG depends on Partclone to copy the disk image.
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Windows Deployment Services
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