Il giorno sab, 01/09/2007 alle 22.13 -0300, André Felipe Machado ha scritto: > Hello, > An unexpected opportunity to present Debian Desktop is coming. > I received a request to list pure Debian Desktop advantages for a > massive migration at a government agency, MAYBE expanding at even more > others IF successful. > Such large scale migration and administration is critical. > > I would like to differentiate from rpm based and flashy .deb derived > distros (they already had painful and costly experiences from a custom > in-house rpm fedora based and are evaluating other distros like ubuntu > and suse). > Also, windows and msoffice docs/macros/apps will not go away and will > have to coexist for (too) many years. I hope they fading... I think that a pre M$ Office to OpenOffice.org migration should be of help. > The previous bad experiences with the custom fedora based, left ZERO > space for more technical and management errors. This is a big big problem. I think that some sort of customization is necessary any way. Even on the dark side of information tecnology they do custom disk images for large deploy (I did to deploy 250 NT servers). > Could you point some Debian Desktop key advantages? * Stable * Secure (no service by default) * Easy to install - preseed for automatic installation - tasksel to select desktop * Easy to upgrade (update-manager or cron-apt and apt-cache or local mirror) Bye sc -- Stefano Canepa aka sc: sc@linux.it http://www.stefanocanepa.it Three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Le tre grandi virtù di un programmatore: pigrizia, impazienza e arroganza. (Larry Wall)
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