On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote:

> Invest in automating the installation. Have someone figure out how
> things like cfengine could be used to do automated installations. If
> the desktops and laptops your company is using are diverse, expect
> more troubles. Uniformity in hardware makes such roll out easier.

Yeah. Having a vetted 'recipe' for the kind of installations and
getting a plug_into_the_network and get_your_hardware_installed would
save you a large number on aspirins.

> Figure out if you are going to keep your 100 computers up with all
> upstream package changes or whether you don't mind lagging by a few
> months and having more controlled (and tested) roll out of selected
> and vetted changes.

That's the LTS part isn't it ?

-- 
You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

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