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Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration CM Banker wrote: > Ain't Open source grand... > > > I've never tried SuSe but I understand that their upgrade process > improved markedly when they hired on David Hassllehoff > <http://www.hasselhoff.com/> to hold his hands on the machine that burns > the CDs. He apparently absorbs all of the hassle from the process. > Suse <http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/> are new wave trend setters. > > In response to this new technique, Microsoft fired up their OS effort on > WindowsXPNextGen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob> and > started the typical pro-microsoft marketing campaign > <http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/>. > > I understand Mark Shuttleworth is consulting with both Steven Seagal > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyflash/76054061/>and Chuck Norris > <http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/> to assist in "eliminating" all > trouble with ubuntu upgrades. > > Seriously, My children finished upgrading their boxen to Ubuntu 7.10 - > no CD; just a simple command. As it was network based, it only took a > couple of hours per box. > > > > > Happy Friday... > > -Craig > > > On 10/18/07, * willhill* <williamhill2 at cox.net > <mailto:williamhill2 at cox.net>> wrote: > > Cool. It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster. > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > > [Suse was] smart enough to resolve all the package > > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent > packages > > in the new version. An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an > > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user / > > configuration data in place. No skips, bumps, nothing, it just > worked > > -- and properly at that. I had to re-compile one non-distributed > Apache > > module and I was running again. > > ... > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
