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Story: So why not put Linux on your business desktops?
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 29 November 2005, 4:00 PM)
This article, like many others that have come before it, misses one of the biggest bennefits that Windows has over Linux. I am talking about group policy. Boss tells me "I want to limit everyone's screen-saver timeout to 15 minutes." I can make the configuration change in under 5 minutes with an AD domain, and Group Policy. WIthout it I would be going to each of our hundreds of PC's and manually changing the settings, and hoping users don't change it back. You have this problem with Linux. I have yet to see any kind of management applicaiton out there that can match the power of Group Policy. It cuts a ton of costs, and it makes the job of the helpdesk, and support a lot less of a headache. Who wants to be spending days just going around to each computer just to enact a change like that?
BTW, I don't want to hear anything about Linux scripting either. I have done it, and am doing it, but it isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination.
Someone please give some time to desktop management when asking the question "Is Linux corporate-ready?"
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