Comment Re:So let's actually fix it, once and for all. (Score 1) 566
Perhaps they're stuck with some from-a-box commercial Linux distro that is not as great after you've taken it home and used it for a while as it seemed in the store you bought it from? Perhaps the costs could be lowered by choosing a non-commercial Linux distribution; spending some money instead on hiring competent and productive administrators who are capable of joining and fruitfully contributing to the Debian Maintainer community.
With Debian, debconf, and something like FAI, they could perform huge numbers of customized and preconfigured (not merely "kickstarted", but preconfigured) installs all at once. And by using ideas from http://www.infrastructures.org/ and "Apt", it may be possible to maintain them with less work than it would take given any commercial distro. If it was my choice, I'd certainly choose Debian, since the Debian toolset and community support make adminstration tasks so much easier.
Of course it will require well trained full time staff to keep it all functioning. Perhaps that requirement for a Computer Science degree will turn out not to be superfluous after all!
(So did Mr. Stallman ever get to actually FIX that printer?)
With Debian, debconf, and something like FAI, they could perform huge numbers of customized and preconfigured (not merely "kickstarted", but preconfigured) installs all at once. And by using ideas from http://www.infrastructures.org/ and "Apt", it may be possible to maintain them with less work than it would take given any commercial distro. If it was my choice, I'd certainly choose Debian, since the Debian toolset and community support make adminstration tasks so much easier.
Of course it will require well trained full time staff to keep it all functioning. Perhaps that requirement for a Computer Science degree will turn out not to be superfluous after all!
(So did Mr. Stallman ever get to actually FIX that printer?)
