Munich Linux scales desktop management
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| The City of Munich has developed impressive systems
| for rolling out and maintaining Linux desktops for
| large numbers of users, according to a British
| developer who had a close-up view of the system.
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| [...]
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| "Most of the work has been in configuration and
| systems... rather than custom packages on the clients
| themselves," McIntyre said in a blog post last week.
| "The vast majority of the packages installed come
| straight from the standard Debian archive."
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| [...]
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| LiMux developers have automated installation via
| Debian's FAI (fully automatic installation) system,
| according to McIntyre, with configuration information
| stored in LDAP and the database administration
| program GOsa as a front-end. "They've integrated
| these to enable some very clever management features
| so that all aspects of the city-wide system can be
| maintained from one central point," McIntyre said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7161&pagtype=samechan
This was mentioned before. The migration in one place
creates software tools for subsequent migration. This
lowers the overall cost significantly. Also serves as
a case study...
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