Automating Red Hat updates (was Re: A call for recomendations and helpful some advice)

[Jason Stephenson]

Me spill chucker woks grate. I needle gamma chicken.

Jason Stephenson wrote:
> BTW, I won't the script in Perl to run on FreeBSD, so I didn't use any 
          ^^^^^
[should be wrote] GRR!

> of the Perl RPM packages. They weren't compatible with the version of 
> RPM that FreeBSD installs (when you install a port that needs RPM).

Anyway, so this isn't a totally wasted message, I'll add that at the 
University of Kentucky College of Engineering we almost always used 
Debian on our Linux servers. Our file, email, and database servers ran 
FreeBSD, while the servers that students would log into to do their work 
ran Debian GNU/Linux. We also had a Solaris server and two HP/UX 
machines for those applications that didn't come in a Linux version. 
There were also Windows NT and 2000 servers, but I wasn't responsible 
for them, so I don't know what they did beyond storing apps and data for 
some of the Windows clients in the college.

On faculty workstations, I would install Red Hat unless the faculty 
member expressed a desire for some other distribution. Generally, they 
either wanted Red Hat, or they didn't care which distro was on there. 
They were generally more concerned with what applications would be on 
the machine.

So, like I said earlier, just go with Debian, particularly since you 
want to use apt. There are many alternatives and choices, but you may as 
well go with what makes you comfortable.

BTW, almost the entire CS dept at UK runs Linux on the desktop.