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Posted Apr 23, 2007 5:57 UTC (Mon) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: profiles? by eru
Parent article: OpenSUSE to drop ZENworks

Ironically the scolded SUSE is exactly the distribution that already has a system like you describe: the System Configuration Profile Management.

"SCPM enables your system to save different configurations in profiles. You can boot directly into a profile as well as switch profiles at run time. It is the successor of scheme management."

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Posted Apr 23, 2007 8:29 UTC (Mon) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]

Right, and I use SCPM for mobile stuff role based changes and
to switch between my home and my customers networks
for newly installed boxes or those that are in for repair/update.

My critique was about having expensive ( resourcewise ) software
installed and running by default ( and only an absolute minority
of users having any real use for that.)

YaST currently is too splintered to give access to switching
these features in a meaningfull way.

Forex adding some timesource via serial line breaks _silently_
on apparmor rules for ntpd. ( had some Talk, fixed )

The answers to my original post are up to slahdot level.

MACC

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Posted Apr 23, 2007 20:11 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

I respectfully submit that you may wish to reexamine your original post then. The folks who responded do generally give useful and constructive replies.