On 3/28/06, Satya ilugbom@thesatya.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:50:40PM +0530, Amit Karpe wrote:
? ? Even if someone is capable of configuring these, it is likely that they may forget at the last moment and also likely that people wont want to spend time configuring stuff on the day previous to the exam at the cost of studying.
This is not a technical problem. Why are students setting up full-blown servers on the last day of the semester?
I agree with Satya. Typically it is far more easier to develop a layer with all the configurations specific to the institute. Having a institute specific layer will also help you port it across different distributions. Try answering the "what if I use different distro" question. Its typically bad to lock in your institute on a distro and a bleeding-edge off-the-cliff one ( fedora ).
Also it is too time consuming to maintain a linux distribution and requires a dedicated team. And there's the added risk of having security flaws not patched in time when the upstream changes.
Amit, if helping the students with their technical problems is the need consider setting up a wiki with the relevant info. Alternatively create a layer ( set of rpms ) which help in such configurations specific to your institute.
regards, C