http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2510526&cid=37956760 has a nice example use case for corporate deployment:
" A competent Windows admin can complete the tasks in about five minutes flat, across thousands of workstations: - Change every users' browser proxy setting, and block them from changing the setting. - Hide any control panel icon. - Configure a printer for every workstation on a certain IP subnet, including the driver. - Force the default desktop wallpaper, home page, and logon message to whatever corporate branding they came up with this month. - Establish trust across every single server and workstation to a Certificate Authority public key. - Disable wireless networking across all computers of a particular model. Even new ones that are added after this change is made. - Configure wireless certificates and enterprise WiFi auth, including automatic certificate renewal. - Deploy an application to every workstation, including powered off workstations. They're powered on overnight, install the software, and then shut down. Failed installs can be reported. New machines that are deployed later receive the package automatically on first boot. Before you reply to this: I know. I know! I know Linux can do much of that. I know you know how to do it. The problem is that the 'solutions' are all spread across many inconsistent tools that almost always need scripting to use in a large environment. It takes a huge amount of knowledge to bring all of that together into a consistent whole." -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GenOS: In Progress Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in NULL Project: Invalid Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
