On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:04, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:01, seth vidal wrote: > > 1. 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
