Vamos project is an open source platform for on demand computing.
Software and data are streamed from the network to any computer and processed locally.
With Vamos, computers no longer need software to be installed into their hard disks.
Any computer connected to the network, is served on demand with the operating system, applications and data…
You can now easily enjoy powerful open source software. Just use it, no need to install.
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![Vamos Client]](/VamosProject?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=vamos-client-button.png "Vamos Client]")
![rootz]](/VamosProject?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=rootz-button.png "rootz]")
News
21.4.2008:
Run Firefox 3 with with Webconverger - the cool web kiosk distro - http://webconverger.com/
Of course rootz can run FF3 kiosk from your existing linux...
19.3.2008:
Released rootz 0.4!
11.3.2008:
rootz 0.3.3 was released tonight and includes mostly bug fixes. See rootz page for more on that.
The next version is going to be 0.4, which is going to be much more flexible. For instance, not only dchroot and firefox can be used, but also chroot will work and other browsers. Many of the options would be configurable and easier to change per system. Like single user mode, I mentioned before, will be supported by the config. After that rootz will be puppy-ready, and probably more_distro-ready 
After some hacking of rootz on puppy - mostly done by Paul, it is now proven that rootz can work on puppy - see some screenshots. But to make it all work together not in an ugly way, some work must be done - I listed the stuff in the todo list (not just for puppy of course!). I hope I didn't miss something... feel free to add stuff you think needed. Feel more than free to play with the code and implement some of the things, or new ideas.
7.3.2008:
A new integration with puppy linux is underway. This is a good opportunity to make rootz more standard and flexible. New bugs are discovered and will be fixed in version 0.3.3. One of the main differences is that puppy runs normally with a single user - that is root! s/dchroot is not mandatory and plain chroot is enough, but with few enhancements such as chroot list (like /etc/dchroot.conf). More on this stuff soon...
4.2.2008:
With the release of version 0.3.2, rootz is now posix compliant:
Support shells like dash, ksh, zsh (removed bashism)
Also fixed nonexistent dchroot.conf handling.
1.2.2008:
Added some screenshots of applications running with rootz
12.1.2008:
I am pleased to announce the release of rootz 0.3.1. This realease includes only one simple feature enhancement, but a very important one:
Support for plain chroot - uncompressed directory containing a complete system (like / dir). With this option, it is actually possible to manually mount virtually any kind of image (also cloop based), using any kind of filesystem (sshfs?). Afterwards rootz will easily hook to the mounted image.
I will soon update the wiki, and will give some examples on how to connect to various distros, which rootz cannot use automatically.
Also in this release, some bug fixes and better handling of the command given to rootz-launcher.
10.1.2008:
There was a problem with the compiled versions of httpfs, and it was fixed...
The binaries are at https://svn.bountysource.com/vamos/trunk/release/httpfs/
8.1.2008:
rootz 0.3 was released yesterday. This realease has some important changes:
- Option to give rootz a local path of iso, instead url. Great for local testing, local http server is not mandatory anymore.
Multiple chroots support. Using @chroot, the user can specify which chroot to operate. For example: rootz://dpkg -l@gamers, will work on a chroot named "gamers"
- Execute from all chroots/first-to-work chroot.
- When not specifing @chroot, the user can decide (using rootz.conf) which rootz will be used: first, first-to-work, all
- Option to execute from local system if possible (app exist)
- Standard mount (mount -t rootz) and /etc/fstab support
- Echoing everything to the console if enabled
Download: https://alioth.debian.org/frs/download.php/2256/rootz-0.3.tar.gz
1.1.2008:
Happy new year!
rootz 0.2.1 was released tonight. From the CHANGLOG:
- Finally really support FTP
- Added mirror-select, a fast http tool for auto-selecting fastest mirror when possible
- Changed installation a bit
The project file hosting has gone down (vamosproject.com). Please use the project page on alioth http://alioth.debian.org/projects/vamos/ to download rootz.