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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:49:11 +0930 (CST)

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Lloyd wrote:

> If the Department put their mind to it, they could create a
> Kickstart/Automated install CD of any operating system (FreeBSD, Linux
> Distribution X, Windows 2000) which would ask appropriate questions at
> startup...

Co-incidentally, this is about the third time in as many days that someone
has said something like this in my hearing.

At least one company makes a living by selling this service,
www.linbox.com. I've been to their place and tried it out and it really
does work.

> > Or, how about if we came up with a Zero Administration Linux (MS was
> > using the "Zero Administration" buzzword a while back to sell it's stuff
> > to schools). It would be possible to have a distribution that asked very
> > few questions and locked itself down real tight. Then nobody would need
> > to spend much money. I mean it would be *Another* Linux distribution,
> > but if it served a purpose....
> 
> But it doesn't need to be ANOTHER Linux distribution. It can be an
> auto-install RedHat/Debian/Caldera/yada yada distribution.

Yep, that's what Linbox do.

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