Wouldn't it be interesting to make ubuntu more interresting for companies by creating ubuntu-workstation

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:17:58 -0500, Tom von Schwerdtner
<tomvons at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:58:23 +0100, Christoph Haas
> 
> 
> <email at christoph-haas.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:35:03PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > In my experience, enterprises which are restrictive about what software to
> > > install, also provide pre-installed images with exactly the set of software
> > > that they will support.  Is there truly a need for a "workstation" profile,
> > > separate from other desktops?
> >
> > Probably not. But that reminds me: what about a way for a PXE bootable
> > installations? Would be nice to have a kind of "installation server"
> > (FTP/HTTP server or NFS share) that can install a default desktop with
> > preset apt sources. That way the client could later be updated
> > automatically (cron job that gets the packages from that very source)
> > and even have configuration files or the list of installed packages
> > being changed.
> 
> I have installed Ubuntu via PXE on my laptop a number of times without
> any problems.  It is not really an out-of-the-box setup (I take some
> files from the release ISO and set them up with an existing tftp
> server I have) but it works very well.

Any change of a small write-up how you did it? I could put it in the
wiki for you (or you could put it there yourself off-course)

greets, AP Ubuntu Doc Team