Apples and Tomatoes... (they're both fruits) Yes, I've heard of, and worked with, and implemented many suites of tools mentioned in this thread. The problem still remains - a lack of parity with the microsoft windows and mac os x tools, and that's still the main barrier to linux adoption on the desktop. The robustness of these tools are still a barrier to adoption in traditional thinking organizations. I wish this weren't the case but it is. On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 16:01 -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 3:16 PM r hayman <rhayman at pureice.com> wrote: > > > > > > You centrally manage all linux devices, controlling what users can > > (and can't) do on their company-issued linux machines? > > And you can keep them configured in a certain way (re-setting them > > back to your company policy as needed)? > > And you can remotely push software, make some of it brain-dead, and > > uninstall it at will from your centralized system? > > All this without needing ssh or logging into each system > > individually? > > And you've been doing that for almost 20 years? > > > > Tell me more. > Ever hear of configuration management? > > SysConf > cfengine > Satellite/Spacewalk > Ansible > > Just to name a few... > > > There's also LTSP if you want to go that route > > > Plenty of bread crumb trails there for you to start following and > researching. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180617/078b495d/attachment.html>