[K12OSN] K12LTSP demo - any suggestions?

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:24, Bill Bardon wrote:
> Wow, thanks to everyone for the great ideas!  This is very helpful.

One thing that *should* matter to decision-makers is the difficulty
of maintaining and updating the system.  I'm not quite sure how
to get across the value of 'yum update' or expain what it does
to someone who doesn't already know, but you should take a stab
at it somehow.  Some of the objections to Linux would be justified
if you used distributions that did not have a method built in to
automatically pick up bug fixes and security updates and take care
of the dependencies while installing them.  The k12ltsp system
beats anything else you could use in terms of one-stop-shopping
to update the OS and applications.  One command to do all the
updates and you only have to do it on the server(s).  Compare that
to the paperwork to maintain licenses and service contracts with
every vendor of OS and apps on every box, and different methods
needed to track bugs and update each of them.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com