Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk writes:
aarrgghhh how many times.. apply the updates and this is less likely to happen..(not impossible mind you)
That's all well and good, but what do you do when the vendor's updates break core functionality required by your users? One thing Debian *still* has my respect for is that its "stable" really is, while still having security updates.
If you want I can do a 10 minute demo at the barbeque on how to make a machine install updates automatically if it will encourage people to do this... I currently have 30 or so machines doing automatic updates, and I have to do about 5 minutes a week to make it work smoothly, all it took was a little time upfront...
This would be good, although "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" variations are 5 minutes up front and then just looking over the output of the cron job...
Seeing as this is pretty much a "misc" thread: I have discovered a RedHat 6.1 machine under my control. How do I upgrade it to 7.1? If it's a nuke and start again, I'll use Debian instead, as time is short, but as time is short, I'm quite happy to leave it as RedHat if there's an upgrade path.