[ILUG] Recommendations for large scale Ubuntu deployment.

[Pádraig Brady]

Braun Brelin wrote:
> Is there an equivalent to yum for Ubuntu?

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redhat      debian
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kickstart   preseed
yum         apt
rpm         dpkg

Here's a bit of a rosetta stone for debian/redhat packaging:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/packaging.html

There is some kickstart compatability for creating
preseed files for debian/ubuntu but I'm not sure it's polished.
For 575 laptops I would setup a preseed file and a
local apt repository.

Pádraig.