In a previous life, my firm deployed thousands of Linux desktops to our end users. The installation and configuration of each machine was taking enormous amounts of time. It's getting all of the 'fiddly bits' configured - permissions rules, installed applications, initial user logins, etc.
We developed a set of scripts to take a reference machine and then make a machine independent cloning DVD that would install on a target machine. The script did the initial phase 1 hardware detection on the target, but then installed the system as it was on the reference machine.
In this way, our sysadmin could keep the reference machine up to date with security patches, permissions rules drivers and other things that drive normal human end users mad. After a few iterations, we had a very stable reference machine and cloned it to many hundreds of desktops.
When we got a new customer, we could even set a root password for their sysadmins into the reference machine and burn a custom install image for them. Custom desktop logo. ETC.
I raise this idea with the community as it might help with larger adoption of GhostBSD to have an app that would treat a machine as a reference and then make a custom ISO installer file to use on target machines to enable deployment at scale in production environments.
