-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Mark...
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03:44 pm, Mark Chou wrote: > What do most of you do to keep your machines up to date with necessary > features and security updates? Do you pretty much re-pave each time for a > newer MDK distro, or do you build your own from sources? Any time-saving > hints, like rsync, etc, which would save download time? What are the best > practices? I cannot speak for others, but the method I have used since I began using Mandrake as a workstation model is that I upgrade nearly every time a new distro is available. Plus, *anytiime* security "fixes" or upgrades are offered, I don't hesitate to download the upgrade and apply it without question. <knocking on wood> Thus far I have yet to be "bitten" by a security upgrade. Even the recent KDE upgrade went flawlessly, although I gather from reading comments that some did have problems. When a new distro comes out, such as 8.2 to 9.0, I wait a few days and watch the newsgroups (and this e-mail list among others) for any complaints of problems, and if none are perceived, I burn the CD's and write over the existing copy. Thus far, other than 8.0, I haven't had any trouble, and then it was because I was in too much of a hurry to do my homework. 8-( Thus far I have never used Mandrake as a server, although I understand it can be just as robust as RedHat when it comes to that. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. <grin> Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net Musicians Calendar and Database access: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html An automatic & random thought For the Minute: Use a pun, go to jail. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+QF9paE1ENZP1A28RAnQAAJ0a6GKiASspirMNt5XpYemjmmSrdQCeLERT mxwI0rSX9QkZ7tLZuYoUffE= =UybP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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