On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 17:56 +0200, Peter wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
>
> > Quoth Hetz Ben Hamo:
> >
> >> The question is - is there any GOOD open source solution for this?
> >> something that can perform updates, notify admin about the updates,
> >> etc? or he needs to "re-invent the wheel"?
> >
> > Yes, there is such a solution. It is called "a sysadmin".
>
> That is not true. Sysadmins are no longer necessary. Just install
> windows XP using a deployment policy on all the machines.
If indeed a proprietary solution is a valid option, and if we mentioned
Microsoft already, then I might suggest Novel's Zen Works. It supports
many Linux distros (and also MS-Windows if you happen to use these
operating systems), and while I have no personal experience with it, I'm
told its quite good and allows one to issue updates (although not
distribution upgrades) easily from the comfort of one's management
console.
If your friend can standardize on one distribution, then many distros
have a managed central update features. I personally recommend
Mandriva's parallel urpmi - I had success using it to upgrade 5 machines
to another major revision (10.1 to 2006), in addition to using it for
day-to-day security updates.
--
Oded
::..
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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