Change Topic = Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience / Now RHEL4

[Dan Lund]

Yeah, I do have to admit that Redhat has done a good job of automating
system updates.  Amazing what you get for $349/year/machine ;)

On 6/4/06, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> We installed a RHEL4 system before all the updates that are currently
> available and have never patched any of the software. This machine has been
> in production ever since. We finally decided to let it update almost 1000
> packages and it did them all, without rebooting and never skipped a beat!
> We should have rebooted for the kernel, but we're running a custom kernel
> anyway, so there was no point in it.
>
> I love linux...
>
> nathan
>
>
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 20:06, Jeff Garland wrote:
>
> > In case no one noticed, this is a place where Linux has a major lead on
> > MS right now -- yes, you can get 64bit Windows, but try to find device
> > drivers and applications -- it's tough.  On top of that, the idea of
> > installing a major OS upgrade and having it automatically upgrade all
> > the apps -- well, that just can't happen on Windows. Anyway, many thanks
> > to all the folks that made this one fleeting moment of software euphoria
> > possible :)
> >
> > Jeff
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