How to manage linux workstations with policies

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Published on 2010-05-14T14:19:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 15:26 UTC
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I am going to be administering a small network of linux based workstations for a charity institution (not all have the same distro- some are ubuntu and some are fedora). Is there something in Linux that is similar to group policy in windows?. For example I would like to standardize the wallpapers - have only firefox as a browser - default VLC as the media player etc etc.

Thank you, any suggestions are very appreciated.

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