The GNOME control center is built on an extensible framework. Other programs 

can be added. In Figure 5 10 on page 109 you see a Thinkpad configuration tool 

that has been added as an option to the control center. The configure thinkpad 

package was used. It can be downloaded at the following URL:

http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/

Figure 5 10   GNOME Thinkpad configuration tool

5.3  The self managing Linux client

The goal of each Linux client migration should be to build a more secure, easier 

to manage, and more productive user environment. In this section we 

concentrate on the manageability aspect and present some general ideas that 

have been realized in several customer projects and are available as open 

source, commercial products or will even be integrated in future versions of the 

standard Linux distributions.

There are many ways to set up a Linux client environment depending on where 

certain resources lie and how they are used and managed. The resources we 

are speaking about are:

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