OS imaging and deployment tools help system administrators standardize the configurations of endpoints and onboard new computers quickly. We list the best. You need to set up all of your endpoints so ...

If you create a lot of EC2 virtual machines, then it is likely going to be worth your time to create custom operating system deployment images. These images allow you to deploy EC2 instances that are ...

We don't formally "image" Macs around the office, instead they just do a vanilla install of OS X, install a couple VMware applications, MS Office 2016 (or is it 2015 for Mac OS?), and a couple of ...

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is designed to streamline the deployment of Windows operating systems, applications, and configurations across multiple devices. If you want to capture Windows Image using ...

The history of computing is littered with the remains of forgotten operating systems—some rendered obsolete by technological ...

Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen tool, which is advertised as making custom Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. Debian for specific Broadcom SoCs) images in a much ...

As the end of 2020 approaches, Linux phones still occupy a tiny niche in the smartphone market. But it’s a growing niche. Pine64 has shipped thousands of PinePhones. The Purism Librem 5 has finally ...

In my previous blog post in this series, I explained that the EC2 Image Builder allows you to create a recipe for building custom EC2 images. In that blog post, we worked through the first step, which ...