New GNOME Does Search Right (eWeek) [LWN.net]

eWeek reviews GNOME 2.14. "Sabayon, interestingly, uses the nested X-Window capability of the X.org Foundation's X.org graphics system, in which you can launch a new session in a window within your current session. In this session within a session, we could set desktop preferences, add task bar items and change font sizes, among other things, and then save that set of configurations as a profile that we could apply to other users."

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New GNOME Does Search Right (eWeek)

Posted Apr 19, 2006 21:54 UTC (Wed) by penguin (guest, #36771) [Link]

Sabayon is the thing im most excited about in Gnomeland. For me who comes from a world of Zenworks (Novell), Sabayon really do blow me away. To just log in, change around and then assign the profile, it cant really be more intuitive or simple. Novell or Microsoft doesnt have anything remotly as nice as this for profile management.

Gnome is becoming a textbook example of how multiuser management should have been handled from the start. My hat of for all those involved in Sabayon. I use it on several servers and it has truly saved me weeks in workload.

Sabayon

Posted Apr 20, 2006 9:19 UTC (Thu) by DG (subscriber, #16978) [Link]

Personally, I found it (Sabayon) to be relatively buggy and it to be quite time consuming to make changes to profiles.

From talking to friends, I get the impression that the Microsoft tools are far more advanced (group policy etc).

(I last used it about 3-4 months ago, so I don't know what's changed since then).

New GNOME Does Search Right (eWeek)

Posted Apr 21, 2006 18:16 UTC (Fri) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link]

kde has handled this beautifully for a few years now, between the kiosk infrastructure and the kiosktool app. many, if not most, large kde deployments rely very heavily on this feature set. kiosk is quite a bit further along and does a lot more than sabayon does (see http://kde.org/areas/sysadmin if you're wondering what those things are), but we had quite the head start and have more integration so it's not really surprising. i'm sure sabayon will eventually catch up, though it will require gnome apps sharing more infrastructure (or a -hell- of a lot of work implementing the features we have in kde in each and every app)

and with kde4 we have (usable and efficient) integration with samba/ldap for storage of user and group profiles (again, transparent to the end applications) which i'm personally rather excited about.