OT: Linux Distrobutions?

[Denis Beauchemin]

Hello all,

I've been following this thread with great interest because we have many
RHL systems here (about 40 servers and desktops).

One thing I like a lot with RHN (Red Hat Network) is the possibility to
PUSH updates to many systems in one fell swoop.  That way I can review
the updates before installing anything.

Can this be achieved with other distros?

Thanks!

Denis
PS: We're planning on upgrading everything to RH9 to get 4 more months
of support and decide in the meanwhile what will happen afterwards
(might upgrade to RHEL WS most servers)...

Le lun 03/11/2003 à 18:11, Ugo Bellavance a écrit :
> > 
> > I see from the downloads page that there are specific 
> > downloads for SuSE
> > and Debian (as well as RH obviously).
> > 
> > I see SpamAssassin has a Debian version (and a Gentoo one).
> > 
> > I'm not after the latest versions of software.  What I really liked
> > about RH 8 was the Up2Date utility that I ran via a weekly cron job to
> > automatically applied security patches for me (I didn't pay 
> > for the full
> > maintenance but was considering it seriously).  The Fedora 
> > project ain't
> > gonna give me this, it seems certain.
> 
> apt, which does exactly the same job as up2date, is already working with Fedora.
> You just need to update your sources.list.
> 
> http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html
> 
> > 
> > I have 2 servers, one of which I was planning to migrate my 
> > customers to
> > very shortly (have spent hours configuring the darned thing; it's
> > running RH 8) so I have the opportunity before it goes live 
> > to bite the
> > bullet and change distros.
> > 
> > I'm running a web management front end called 42go that supports SuSE,
> > Debian and Mandrake as well as RH, so this seems to be the choice.
> > 
> > Julian's recommendation of SuSE obviously cuts a lot of ice.  
> > However, I
> > have had Debian recommended for its ease of updating and Bob Jones's
> > comments on this list reinforce this.
> > 
> > So, which distro offers automatic updating, a la Up2Date?  
> 
> Debian does, but, in the end, Fedora might do the trick.
> 
> >I 
> > don't mind
> > paying for it, but I'd prefer it to be a one-off charge, 
> > unlike RH, who
> > are offering me this:
> > 
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES Basic Edition*   $174.50/year for 1 system
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