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[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2510526&cid=37956760
has a nice example use case for corporate deployment:

" A competent Windows admin can complete the tasks in about five minutes
flat, across thousands of workstations:

- Change every users' browser proxy setting, and block them from changing the setting.
- Hide any control panel icon.
- Configure a printer for every workstation on a certain IP subnet, including the driver.
- Force the default desktop wallpaper, home page, and logon message to whatever corporate branding they came up with this month.
- Establish trust across every single server and workstation to a Certificate Authority public key.
- Disable wireless networking across all computers of a particular model. Even new ones that are added after this change is made.
- Configure wireless certificates and enterprise WiFi auth, including automatic certificate renewal.
- Deploy an application to every workstation, including powered off workstations. They're powered on overnight, install the software, and then shut down. Failed installs can be reported. New machines that are deployed later receive the package automatically on first boot.

Before you reply to this: I know. I know! I know Linux can do much of
that. I know you know how to do it. The problem is that the 'solutions'
are all spread across many inconsistent tools that almost always need
scripting to use in a large environment. It takes a huge amount of
knowledge to bring all of that together into a consistent whole."

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
  Invalid
Status in dylan.NET:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in GenOS:
  In Progress
Status in GNOME Screensaver:
  Won't Fix
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in LibreOffice:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in NULL Project:
  Invalid
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
Status in openSUSE:
  In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
  This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

  Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
  restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
  limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
  potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

  Steps to repeat:

  1. Visit a local PC store.

  What happens:
  2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
  3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

  What should happen:
  1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
  2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
  3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

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