Updating Free Software in the Enterprise?

Posted by Cliff on Monday May 16, 2005 @07:58AM from the one-is-easy-one-hundred-isn't dept.

wallykeyster asks: "I'm an IT Director for a small private university in the U.S., and we are largely a Microsoft shop. We pay over $15,000 each year for our Campus Agreement so that we can upgrade the desktop OS to our version of choice, run Office, and have some Client Access Licenses. I would like to move to FOSS solutions, but I'm having trouble finding support for Enterprise management. For example, OpenOffice and Firefox (both of which I use personally) would be easy first steps, but IE is updated automatically via our SUS server (and settings pushed to clients via group policies) and Office updates will be included soon. How are other larger organizations (i.e. more than 200 desktops) dealing with software deployment and updates? Is anyone using Zen with Novell Desktop Linux?"

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I would be ashamed by Vile+Slime · 2005-05-16 08:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Personally,

If I were the IT Director somewhere and I didn't even know the basics of what is arguably the most powerful networked operating system available today I would be ashamed to say it.

Get a job in another field. The people you support will be greatly appreciative.

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Re:apt-get upgrade ? by Doc+Ruby · 2005-05-16 09:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

That's Informative :). It seems that apt has the APIs to allow my common scenario. Any tool that lets me graphically maintain a structured list of just the apps I'm keeping current? With per-app rollback?

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