> There are still some fairly basic hurdles that Linux needs to get over in > order to make it in Enterprise/Schools: > > 1. Centralized management improvements: My boss wants everything to be > point-and-click, so no CLI options would work here.
This statement negates the first? Automate, but you want shinny clicky stuff? Frankly, in with windows if it doesn't have a cli alternative, I discount it. It only does excel in Enterprise for these reasons where in reality what your boss wants is what doesn't. > If it can't be done in a GUI, she won't go for it... because what if I leave > and nobody else knows how to fix things? No comment... So what she wants is not to learn a technology, but to see a gui that points her along so she just has to click next, next, next and not know what she's doing? Wow... > And how do you deploy a printer to a lab? What about updating Firefox in an > entire school? Trivial in linux. By design even... Updates are something still not as perfect in Windows as it is in Linux. >From initial deployment even, I've written kickstarts that not only deployed >the machine but setup every running daemon and configured it 100% that I didn't need to back those servers up, if they failed I redeployed in mere minutes. Given all the configuration management tools that exist, the options here limitless. > Thus far, Webmin might be the best current solution to this problem, but I > can't webmin 20 computers > at the same time as far as I know. Honestly bud, no real Linux admin uses webmin, and for what its worth, I have never even setup a Linux server with a gui, oh I worked on one in a rhel class once:) > 2. Network home folders: Everybody loves that their documents are > automatically saved to the server... > and we like not having to backup 1000+ desktops. Getting this to work in > Linux is no cakewalk. It is actually, you simply don't how. Automount to name one of several ways that come to mind? I am fine that you don't like Linux, thats cool, but your statements are all factually incorrect. If you just say Linux sucks because you don't like it, thats valid and i can dig it. However it excels in all the areas you point out in reality. jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
