RE: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-03 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bill McGonigleb...@bfccomputing.com wrote: ... control of the domain name ... So, trust and brand value are at risk. That, and the massive organizational clusterfsck that would ensue if they had to switch to a different domain name. Everyone from

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
[Ben gently reminded me I forgot to hit 'reply-all'] On 07/30/2009 06:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote: Is CentOS incorporated? If not, there is no write-off. Hrm? I mean they probably can't expect to ever recover it. It's just that all their benefactors who gave them money will now be very

Request for reviewer, Apress Pro Linux System Administration

2009-08-03 Thread Ted Roche
I've received a review copy of Apress' Pro Linux System Administration. If anyone is willing to review it -- as little as a couple hundred words you'll post publicly, to the GNHLUG mailing list, wiki, and/or Amazon or other online review sites, within a reasonable period (maybe six weeks?) --

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Flaherty, Patrickpflahe...@wsi.com wrote: ... control of the domain name ... So, trust and brand value are at risk. ... massive organizational clusterfsck that would ensue ... You should be using a local mirror!!! Update one rsync script and you're done.

RE: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-03 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
... control of the domain name ... So, trust and brand value are at risk. ... massive organizational clusterfsck that would ensue ... You should be using a local mirror!!! Update one rsync script and you're done. The various files that control package management explicitly

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-03 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Aug 3, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: Spacewalk is sorta like wsus, machines check in tell you what their patch level is. You can approve new patch levels and push them out to the machines. It's the upstream for RedHat network, but it is rather centralized. Two minor