Hi, Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 14:35 schrieb David Corbin: > Not wanting to hijack the thread from the OP, but this subject interests me > for the following reason. I work on a software system where one customer > has about 10000 systems at about 500 locations. Remote systems are > categorized as one of 3 types/configurations. Automated management of them > is essential, including upgrades, but seldom upgrades "to the latest and > greatest" as stability is very important. Upgrades need to "just work", > and not require manual intervention. Currently, they're all on Windows in > one form or another (ugh!). The systems in question have very limited > capabilities, and the people on site have very limited permissions. > > Other potential customers have similar size systems, and I certainly expect > someone to realize the value of Linux for this. I'd like to have a > solution in my mind when the time comes. > > I've considered the idea of a custom distribution to do this. There is no > doubt in my mind, that any such distribtuion would be based on an existing > one, with tweaks that deal with where updates come from, and what packages > are availble, etc. Gentoo or Debian are the two likely candidates. I'm > not *sure* a customized distribution is appropriate.
have a look at rocklinux (http://www.rocklinux.org/wiki/Main_Page) It's a "Distribution Build Kit". I tried it some time ago and was really impressed. > David Hand, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
