[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 10 Jul 2009, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>I'll happily provide the automatic provisioning that will make
>reinstallation of their workstation a triviality.  I'll also happily let
>them do that themselves at their own time.
>I don't see the point in locking them into restrictions that actally do
>no good.

This works fine at the (tens of thousands of employees) place I know
about. Sure, you can trash your standard-issue laptop (Windows or
Linux). What help do you get if you do? You can reinstall it _really
quickly_, and the reinstallation process doesn't nuke a particular
partition, so keep anything you wanted there.

Keeps most people happy. If you want to tinker you can; but staff time
isn't bled away in fixing tinkered-with machines.

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