On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:04, Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:01, seth vidal wrote:
- prof in the dept with a laptop
We should be able to get laptops managed. That other thread on fedora-devel mentioned this a bit maybe? Anyway, basically replicate the OS image to them whenever they are connected.
do you have any idea how intrusive that is? Especially on laptops where hardware gets ODD from release to release.
I disagree - there need to be ways for a user to setup and modify config files w/o having to understand each one. If I can't tell the chair how to reconfigure his network adapter for a static ip when he's in some remote location then there is going to be problems.
If we can't figure out how to manage laptops (require manual config/admin of them) then it's a big problem, since half of corporate desktops are laptops.
show me any other operating system that doesn't have manual administration of configuration settings (system-wide) be able to be done from a gui console?
Can you think of ANY?
I can think of lots that can't do mass-system-maintenance. But NONE that can't do a single-system maintenance.
you're going too far in the opposite direction and it just isn't realistic at all.
-sv