WSJ: Mossberg takes the Linux bait and snarls ....

[Tim]

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 at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.4-65.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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