[Sheflug] Updating a Mixed Network - or Just Linux ?

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All

I was sitting in the Tai Pan restaurant in Manchester with Owen Le
Blanc yesterday evening and we were chatting about the latest
developments to do with Linux.  for those of you who don't know, Owen
is a UKUUG committee member.

One of the things that came up in conversation was the subject of
updating machines over a network. 

To explain his problem.   He wants to update all machines and he would
like to update just one machine with a 1.0 update and another machine
with a 2.5 update.  He came across this kind of thing whilst working
in his office at Manchester Computing Centre.

I suggested that Webmin with an SSH module might be the answer.  He
said he'd never heard of it.  He also said that he would really
prefer  something that was much more sophisticated.  He thinks that
*it_is_important* for the future use of Linux to be able to do this
kind of thing with it.  It should have more widespread acceptability
this way he says.

I did mention Racal Instruments to him.  I know that some of the
people from that company are on this discussion list.  Perhaps they
may wish to make some comments ?

Thanks

-- 
Richard

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