[wplug] Corporate Desktops

[John Harrold]

Sometime in June Vanco, Don assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 	The availability of an upgrade doesn't necessarily mean you have
| to use it.  Honestly, the customers that I deal with that match your
| profile usually "set it and forget it" when it comes to the distro they
| use (as opposed to following a frequent update schedule)

I agree, but I was more concerned with lack of security updates. For
example Core 2 comes out and I don't want to update our server, but I want
fix the exploit in package xxx that was announced a couple days ago. Say
the Fedora guys think it's too much trouble to update Core 1 now that they
are on Core 2 (or 4), now I'm stuck with a decision: upgrade to Core 2,
download xxx source and recompile, or sit around and wait to be rooted.

| Knoppix?

When I install Fedora/Redhat, I can specify that I want to use NIS, the
default root password, etc. all from the kickstart config file. I tried
installing knoppix. It just dumped knoppix to the disc and booted as the
'knoppix' user. I wasn't sure how to go about automating the knoppix
install so that it would integrate into our working environment.

| You sound like you might be a candidate for White Box Linux - the
| "reverse engineered" (well, compiled) RHEL distro.  RH Professional
| Workstation can provide all the stuff you need.

I kind of want to move away from redhat. I have nothing against them -- I
think they are a great company and they have done a lot for linux and free
software in general. Instead of relying on redhat and it's derivatives, I
want to devote my time to something that I think will remain for a while.
As a result I've decided to focus on Debian. The Fedora Workstation thing
is a short term solution. In the long term, I'm going to try to figure out
fai (*) and move completely to Debian.

I'm limited from a sysadmin perspective. I do this in my spare time, so I
probably haven't fully/adequately weighted all the options. What I'm doing
seems to balance out the rate of learning new stuff with available time
though.

(*) http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/




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