Thanks for your advice. On Wed, 26 Mar, 2025, 1:24 pm Hakan Bayındır, <ha...@bayindir.org> wrote:
> On 3/26/25 9:56 AM, Sarbjit Singh Sandhu wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion I liked that but can you please help me that > > how to use and install debian on approx 20 computers of my schools with > > the kde plasma desktop and how to update them every 2 years and also > > making it user friendly for the people who are going to use them > > > > Dear Sarbjit, > > Debian installation can be automated in various ways. Some of them are > Debian native, some are not. With these methods, you can create a custom > Debian system which installs the way you want, out of the box, with all > the customizations you need. > > The first way is Debian Preseed [0]. You can create a "Preseed" file and > give options and add scripts to your installation to customize it. > > Second way is FAI [1]. FAI is a "mass-deployment" tool which is aimed at > what you want to do. While FAI supports many distributions, Debian is > one of them. We used FAI to deploy a Debian derivative distribution that > we made country-wide. So it can certainly do 20 computers. > > There are also other ways to mass-deploy Debian (like xCAT), but it'll > be an overkill for your case. So FAI and Preseed are your best choices. > > Best Regards, > > Hakan > > [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed > [1]: https://fai-project.org/ > > > > On Wed, 5 Mar, 2025, 1:45 pm Gard Spreemann, <g...@nonempty.org > > <mailto:g...@nonempty.org>> wrote: > > > > > > Sarbjit Singh Sandhu <sarbjitsinghsandhu...@gmail.com > > <mailto:sarbjitsinghsandhu...@gmail.com>> writes: > > > > > I am writing to propose the creation of a new Debian branch that > > > offers a stable release every year, as opposed to the current > 5-year > > > cycle. > > > > It's really great to see young people interested in Debian. I do > need to > > point out that the current cycle has been approximately 2 years long > for > > quite a while, not 5. > > > > > > Best, > > Gard > > > >
