Basically, I am not in favour of Redhat distribution as I see it as
Microsoft of Linux world. They seem to have some kind of monopoly. I wrote
to them few months ago to see whether they had any kind of committment to
education like Sun microsystems have with their Staroffice (which is free to
education). They did not even bother to reply even though I repeated my
query several times. I don't wish to go on about them but in my experience
with all major Linux distributions I found SUSE to be the best in terms of
cost, support and comittment to education. I do use Mandrake as well on one
of my servers but Mandrake appear to be a problematic at times.
Suse does have live update facility but never checked whether it has
automatic update facility, as I prefer to do updates manually myself.
regards
Mustafa Gural
Canon Palmer Catholic School
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From: "Alex Brett"
I have been using Red Hat Linux (8.0) on a server in a prep school and had been using the Red Hat Network to keep it up to date security wise etc.
Now I find out that Red Hat are discontinuing support and updates for the basic Red Hat Linux (8.0 end of December and 9.0 end of April) I am having to look for another distribution :(
Basically, does anybody have any experience with SUSE/Mandrake/Debian/any other suitable distro of automating updates - I guess I could write a script to download them from an ftp and run them etc etc - I was just wondering if anybody knows if any other distro has updates integrated.
This is important because I am not at this school much so if it isn't done unattended automatically then most of the time it won't get done (as the machine is currently just providing the firewall and web services so is basically left to run) which is obviously quite a security risk :| .
Thanks in advance, Alex Brett alex.brett@brettcomputers.co.uk
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