Custom configuration of network clients

[Patrice Neff <mailinglists@patrice.ch>]

Hi,

I would like to configure the hosts in a Skolelinux network according  
to our standards. Things I'm thinking about currently:
  - sources.list file changes (use Internet or apt-proxy host in the  
network)
  - Installation of Gnome instead of KDE (probably, not decided yet  
- but we use Gnome in the current network)
  - Probably a few customizations of Gnome (or KDE) such as the  
application menu and putting Firefox as the default browser instead  
of Konqueror

My clients are not thin-clients but workstations.

First: is there any way built into Skolelinux to do that kind of  
configuration automatically at the moment? If yes, can you point me  
to the documentation - I did not find it.

If not, I have a few ideas how one could go about this:
  - Automated installation using e.g. FAI
  - Customize debian-edu-config and burn my own CD (how do you  
compile Skolelinux CDs by the way?)
  - The Skolelinux default CD could look for some customizations on  
tjener and download them from there. Maybe also a Debian package or  
some cfengine files.

Thank you for any pointers. And if I missed existing documentation  
for that: apologies.

Patrice