A base image is made up of the workstation operating system, plus some core applications. NAL is used to distribute additional applications to workstations. The old remote boot environment is stored and controlled centrally. This offers little to the faculties, in the way of flexibility and control. The new local boot system offers faculties control of the desktop environment in labs.
Faculties can select the operating system and applications, which run in labs.
To achieve the best results from this new system, faculties need skilled and qualified staff to operate the labs. ITS can provide assistance with lab set up and operation.