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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Most companies I've worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees'Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the following:

policy control
Software Center with software allow lists
controlled OS updates
zscaler
software detection tool to detect what's been installed and determine if any unallowed software is present
antivirus
VPN

I can think of a few things, like a company having it's own software repos, or using an atomic distribution. There's already open source VPN solutions if course. But for everything else I don't really know what could be used or what setup we could have.

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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That list makes me wanna get a job on a small company of up to 10-20 people, where none of these things are usually needed...

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hear you. But if we want Linux to seriously become the next desktop OS, I think it's important to find something that gives large organisation some kind of way to manage their large IT inventory and users securely.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

~~FreeIPA~~

Fleet comander seems to be great for this task. It runs FreeIPA among a few other things to allow for active directory like control.

https://fedoramagazine.org/join-fedora-linux-enterprise-domain/

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 7 months ago

I'd say most of those are needed; they're just not used.