On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Yuva raj <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > In my current company we have 500 employees working on windows > platform. we have planned to move to ubuntu for day to day use. we would > like to have an customized ubuntu iso which contains all the required > packages like eclipse , qt and much more so that we can reduce the > repetitive installation tasks. I am looking for some pointers , things to > note , links to how to articles on the following topic. > > At our company we created a similar setup, we called it *ROSE* ( *Ruby's Operating System for Enterprise* ). What we did was we installed all the softwares commonly preferred, documentations of the languages and libraries we used, tools like the ruby interpreter version 1.9.3 into a fresh system and made a backup ISO of that system. The backup was generated using http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/
One important thing you should keep note is that, it is hard to tell everyone what all tools and facilities are available in the system. In our case we solved this by setting the home page of firefox and google chrome to an FAQ page on ROSE. And to prevent the OS from downloading from the official ubuntu repo, we removed the repositories that were in there, with link to our local server which mirrored the Ubuntu repositories. In this central repo, we even added provision to install the customized OS via LAN. So far doing so have helped us reduce considerable bandwidth and increased the productivity of the engineers as the commonly used documentation, libraries and tools are already in the system being used. -- Harisankar P S http://rubykitchen.in http://tech.hsps.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
