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  From: Richard Russell <richard.russell@bigpond.com>
  To  : Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
        <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:04:53 +0930

RE: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

<snip>

> 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....

IMHO, the problem here is twofold:

1) ongoing maintenance (new bugs, vulnarabilities, exploits, bitrot, etc)
2) ongoing changes (new projects, new requirements, etc)

You need a skilled person to track the state of Linux and the changing
requirements, and then decide what to do, and implement the changes. It is
simply not enough to set up a system, no matter how well, and leave it.

rr

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