Network booting returns as bare-metal AI infrastructure standard

PXE workflows, dormant through the cloud era, have resurged as enterprise infrastructure teams return to bare-metal deployments for AI/ML workloads where hypervisor overhead undermines GPU performance. Infrastructure-as-code practices and reproducible provisioning demands accelerated the shift. Bootimus, a single-binary network boot server with embedded proxyDHCP and 50-plus Linux distribution auto-detection, exemplifies the emerging tooling around this infrastructure turn.