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📣 ktpsns

Linux Desktop in Startup


We are currently planning/carrying out a startup in Europe (currently 4 founders, up to 50 employees end of 2021). We will move in (1500 square meters of) office space in February and currently plan the grand IT picture. We will definitely hire up to 4 IT guys (DevOp, SecOp or how you call them today).

As we will do basic R&D and lab work, we have a big need for security. As we are all technically skilled people, we favour Linux on the desktop.

Here is my question: What's the modern way of an enterprise level Linux infrastructure? Given that I would not want to use a notebook where I have not root, what's the best way to implement a functional concept?

I just wonder whether the answer is to go to some Linux vendor (such as RHEL) and buy everything in.

I would love to hear opinions or keywords from the HN community.


  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
I think they're called IT person. Guys excludes many qualified people.

👤 znpy
You might want to buy into the Red Hat world and also buy some consultancy from them.

They pioneered advanced security on GNU/Linux across the whole stack and depending on your needs they might help you define security policies and also implement them.


👤 mister_hn
Checkout MDM and VMWare Airwatch definitively