[ILUG] Enterprise updates

[Niall O Broin]

On 2 Sep 2004, at 22:13, Kevin Brennan wrote:

> I currently have some web servers running RHES 3.0, the host company I 
> use
> include this as standard. The auto updates I find realy usefull as it 
> saves
> time monitoring mailing lists, applying patches manually etc. I am 
> currently
> planning deployment of a number of servers in our own rackspace and 
> would
> like to have the ease of management that RH up2date gives.
>
> Since RHES 3 is the only distribution I've used in this environment 
> where
> updates, stability and security are important,  I'd like to know what 
> other
> alternatives are out there.? The free'er the better.

They don't come any freer than Debian, in the speech and beer senses, 
and of course the apt package management and dependency handling system 
is the original of the species from the POV of automatic updates.



Niall