A question for some of you larger zLinux shops.

I'm running SUSE 7, 8, 9 and 9 64 bit.  (OK SLES7 is going to be out of
the picture soon).

I'm restarting the project of keeping my Linux images, up to date, or
at least as much as I care about.  YOU now seems to work fine going out
to the Novell maintenance site.

So, other than reducing the load on Novell, why/when should I consider
having my own mirrored maintenance site?

It seems like once a new image is synced up, any new maintenance would
be relatively small, and would have minimum impact on you.novell.com.
Also, I'm not really sure I want to keep things "very well maintained".
On one side, if a production image is working, maintenance may cause it
not to work.  On the other hand, maintenance may prevent future
failures.  I don't know.  We are still discussing monthly, quarterly,
annual update options, and other options.

And to mirror all the types of images does get into a bit of disk
space.

So, what are some reasons for having your own maintenance site.  Our
GBE is basically idle evenings/nights/weekends.

Thanks

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

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