Sanity Checking OS Configuration via Reflective Computation

摘要

Increasing adaptability of today's operating systems implies higher demands for administration skills, and thus higher costs for system maintenance. Network Computer, NetPC, and Zero Administration Initiative are attempts to lower the costs of ownership by reducing hardware and software variety and restricting the number of things users and administrators can configure or adapt. However, the scope of these concepts is limited to (thin) clients, and does not cover the maintenance of servers, of PCs or workstations for users doing work out of the main stream and thus needing different (fat) software installations, and of NetPC or other client profiles.