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the hardware thing was not a problem for us as we could dictate which computers were bought. so computers were bought which would be compatible. our problem wa
by deknos 5y ago
the hardware thing was not a problem for us as we could dictate which computers were bought. so computers were bought which would be compatible.
our problem was: none of the tools we needed were available in the quality and richness as they exist today.
automatic deployment to hundred of PCs at the same time with extensive automatic configuration? session and configuration management per user?
departments want to use different backgrounds per house or subdepartment. all that stuff had to be built in a scalable way.
the solutions today were not available back then.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoI'm sorry, but I disagree about the two last points. Around 2001/2002 I was doing this kind of work of purchasing new desktops and deployments on hundreds of machines using a combination of PXE and Kickstart (I believe Kickstart appeared in 1998). It was not ideal, but it worked, and each department had their own settings. The only complaint I heard from my colleagues was that they cannot install "little sheep" (one of these gimmicks that would sit on your desktop and distract you). Actually some of them were upset they cannot install games, but they preferred not to voice this concern aloud. As to your first problem, the lack of software, yes, it was a huge problem then. What we had to use at that time was substandard. I personally suffered (even though I love Linux on the server). Also KDE was unstable and a memory hog, Gnome wasn't much better, and you couldn't just buy more RAM. I'm very happy these days are over.