Active Directory Domain on Ubuntu

[Mark]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Friday, November 12, 2010 06:30 PM, Mariano Jara wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 08:50 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> On Friday, November 12, 2010 06:09 AM, Mariano Jara wrote:
>>>
>> <snip>
>>> For the home, Ubuntu is fine. For the corporate desktop where there may
>>> be policies to be enforced and nothing will do it except KDE3 which is
>>> no longer on any current mainstream distro.
>>
>> Christopher, which distro would you recommend for the corporate desktop
>> today?
>
> ...the only distro that has tools for say 'group policies' is Ubuntu
> Hardy that i know of but I cannot recommend that given its state of affairs.
>
> You might want to give Debian Lenny a try if you don't have to use
> proprietary X drivers or are willing to deal with them. It comes with
> KDE 3.5.10 and I believe you should be able to get kiosktool for
> managing group policies.
>
> That is all I can say for now. If and when kiosktool is updated for KDE
> 4.x, then we can take another look.
>
There are other distros that are better suited for corporate use.
Typically the LTS distros do well for this, e.g. RHEL, CentOS,
probably Ubuntu LTS (which I've never tried), SLES or SLED, etc.

The main distinctions between the above and what non-corporate
individuals use is that they are more oriented to long term stability
than having the latest and greatest newfangled whizzbang shiny toy,
but if you are willing to do the work needed for corporate
integration, any stable distribution should work.

It's not so much the size or condition of the ship but how much
maintenance you are willing to do.

Mark