Hi Jimmy,
First of all thank you Jimmy for providing this feedback, any help you
and others can provide to help us build the requirements list for the
various usecases is great. I will make sure to take your points with me
as part of the continued working group effort and tasklist.
Christian
On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 15:32 -0500, Jimmy Dorff wrote:
“Case 4” in the Product Description is the most important for me. The is
where I work in a university, but I know some commercial orgs that work
similarly. My developers are writing code and analyzing data. They are not
building or contributing to Fedora. Key tools are C, C++, python, R,
Matlab, Octave, plus git and svn.
We use enterprise logins (ldap + MIT krb5). Desktops are NFS clients, data
is stored on file servers. Desktops often have multiple displays.
Desktops are professionally managed. The level of developer admin is going
to vary based on the organization. Generally the developer isn’t
installing the workstation. Home directories are centrally stored and
preserved across updates.
In summary:
* enterprise logins (large numbers of users and groups)
* network filesystems (NFS, SMB, etc..)
* centralized network and desktop management (lots of great tools exist)
Cheers,
Jimmy