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Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux. (lemmy.ca)
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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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[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago

Takes a bit more than that to really lock down a Linux install. At the very least you'd have to also limit their ability to mount extra storage, mount their /home with noexec, and centrally manage their browser.

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