Because IBM had the nerve to compete with Microsoft, they could seal the deal with Microsoft to install Windows 95 on their machines a whopping 15 minutes before the launch event. Well played Microsoft.

Here are some of them: https://github.com/SverigeLinu...

Where exactly are you missing them?

Right now, it's not many things that differ, other than that you can choose domain name and IP-series for your self. However, we aim to cater for the needs of the swedish public sector which is built using about 100% Microsoft products on the operating system side of things. Therefore we will implement things like citrix clients, the ability to automate creating virtual machines for Windows images and having the Linux-system communicate with it using seamless RDP, a bit like bootcamp.

Another thing we are building now is a standardized way for OpenIDM to handle identity management and synchronization of accounts between AD and OpenLDAP.

Using SverigeLinux we can also deploy ElementaryOS and Ubuntu, which I think is a good thing. Deployment profiles to integrate Ubuntu workstations into an AD-environment using Realmd is also in the pipeline to be implemented.

But of course, we cannot compete with DebianEdu when it comes to maturity of code. We don't intend to either, rather I would like to work together as much as possible with existing projects.

We are looking into preseeding aswell, but the advantage with FAI is, I think, that it is more versatile. But it also has a higher learning threshold.

The plan with this system is to offer a number of different ways to manage an infrastructure and FAI is one, preseeding is another, the foreman could be a third, even FOG or CloneZilla.. The important part is the infrastructure in the form of an LDAP-directory for e.g. DNS, DHCP and user data. We would like the users to have several options to choose from depending on background and preference. We'll see how that goes...

I didn't know CloneZilla had centralized user management and data storage as well as DNS, DHCP services?

I'm not sure who you take a swing at here, but the decision to make this an english "product" at this stage is because we thought it would appeal to a larger crowd. If you want some swedish to sift through I can throw in the project description for good measure:

https://www.internetfonden.se/...

Also, it is quite trivial to add multilingual support to the parts that matter. Most of the documentation that I'm writing for the system is however in swedish for this first phase of the project.

The FAI in SverigeLinux is the same as the FAI in Wheezy, what we've added is the config directory which installs OpenLDAP, Kerberos, centralized home directories mounted via NFS4 over kerberos, FusionDirectory for LDAP management of user-, DNS- and DHCP-settings, Icinga and Munin for monitoring, Roundcube for webmail, OwnCloud for cloud storage, dirvish for backup and some more stuff. The server can also replicate itself so that you can install an exact copy of the mainserver.
The whole idea is that you won't need to spend a couple of months implementing the system with all these components, testing the setup and running into a myriad of problems before getting it right. It's just there from the beginning, tailored with your own domain name and your own IP-series if you so please. Think of it as the dcpromo of the Linux world, sort of. Please, feel more than free to contact me, if you're a long time FAI user we could definitely use your skills. :)

First, this is not an imaging system, it's an install system which installs mainly Debian based distributions, based on Fully Automatic Installation (fai-project.org). FAI in turn is possible to use with multi-distribution capabilities to install CentOS, Scientific Linux and a few more. As a final twist, this project will also incorporate the possibility to install FOG servers but it is not our primary focus right now.

Since the swedish public sector software licensing costs are about $1bn annually, this project will always be underfunded...

You are in luck then, next issue up is integrating the clients in Active Directory via Realmd.