French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. There will be 1154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.
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The simple answer is with LTSP. I don't know why people who use computers for office work don't go with thin client systems. I'm an IT person for a moderately large school division in saskatchewan and we have a rather large number of users using thin clients (mix between LTSP and Sunray).
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"I don't know why people who use computers for office work don't go with thin client systems."
Hmmm... that would be a good solution. You'd have to do administration only on few computers and could add and remove workstation clients as you like.
The library of the university I once studied at had a Sun system with Ray clients. They were small, fast, silent, you could log in everywhere you wanted and still have all your files and settings. You could add local and central printers and had support for many hardware accessories (e. g. via USB). The system was running Solaris, of course. Linux already supports the modern Sun hardware platforms.
Did I mention they were silent? PC stuff usually is loud. Not good for work, neither at home.
So get rid of PCs and use thin clients where it makes sense. In the discussed case it surely does.
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//how do you deploy 1000 Linux PC's with all the software installed in a quick fashion?//
These support people can tell you how to do it for 100,000 machines.
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
1,000 would be dead simple.
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I'm familiar with Red Hat's Anaconda and Kickstart, but other than that, how do you deploy 1000 Linux PC's with all the software installed in a quick fashion?