[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[JLMS]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David
Damerell<damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>


How do they deal with security in such promiscuous environment?

Can people go home, install any software they feel like it, and then
come back and connect the laptop in the corporate network?
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