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They are on servers (nfs4)

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One person can re-image 400 student machines in a week, that wasn't possible with Windows. This means that if it comes to it we can update the whole school in a half term holiday. If you don't leave it too long you can update ( rather than re-image ) a single ICT room of 33 machines in a lunchtime if you need to. As I said in the interview, the first half term didn't go as well as I hoped but because we can make and roll out images much faster now we could fix the things we discovered and during the first half term holiday we rolled out another image that fixed all the things that were broken. The short cycles do create a problem but not the way you would think. OpenSuse do a release about every 8 months and as rolling out a new version is relatively quick and easy there is a terrible temptation it think 'Oh, version n.x has some nice features, let's push that out.' You have to remember that students are still learning to use computers. Having a rapidly moving target is a bit unfair.

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