Thanks for your advice.
On 3/26/25 9:56 AM, Sarbjit Singh Sandhu wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion I liked that but can you please help me that
> how to use and install debian on approx 20 computers of my schools with
> the kde plasma desktop and how to update them every 2 years and also
> making it user friendly for the people who are going to use them
>
Dear Sarbjit,
Debian installation can be automated in various ways. Some of them are
Debian native, some are not. With these methods, you can create a custom
Debian system which installs the way you want, out of the box, with all
the customizations you need.
The first way is Debian Preseed [0]. You can create a "Preseed" file and
give options and add scripts to your installation to customize it.
Second way is FAI [1]. FAI is a "mass-deployment" tool which is aimed at
what you want to do. While FAI supports many distributions, Debian is
one of them. We used FAI to deploy a Debian derivative distribution that
we made country-wide. So it can certainly do 20 computers.
There are also other ways to mass-deploy Debian (like xCAT), but it'll
be an overkill for your case. So FAI and Preseed are your best choices.
Best Regards,
Hakan
[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
[1]: https://fai-project.org/
>
> On Wed, 5 Mar, 2025, 1:45 pm Gard Spreemann, <gspr@nonempty.org
> <mailto:gspr@nonempty.org>> wrote:
>
>
> Sarbjit Singh Sandhu <sarbjitsinghsandhu509@gmail.com
> <mailto:sarbjitsinghsandhu509@gmail.com>> writes:
>
> > I am writing to propose the creation of a new Debian branch that
> > offers a stable release every year, as opposed to the current 5-year
> > cycle.
>
> It's really great to see young people interested in Debian. I do need to
> point out that the current cycle has been approximately 2 years long for
> quite a while, not 5.
>
>
> Best,
> Gard
>