On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 08:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Personal opinion again, but the thing that makes unix-like systems > unsuitable for personal desktop use is that there is just too much > administration involved if everyone has to do it all individually - > and a few dozen expertly installed/maintained systems could handle > virtually everyone's desktop needs as long as the ability to add new > packages is still available. But "maintained" is the operative word > there - when the master updates or changes package versions the copies > need to track the changes over the life of the machine. Isn't this the sort of thing that Redhat's RHN system did? You could have a master config, that was a template for others on your network. You set up the updates to be queued remotely, and the slaves did what they were told to do. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
