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

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:08:21PM +0000, Richard wrote:
> 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.

	From my little understanding on the topic, isn't this one of the
things Progeny tries to address with it's "Network of Workstations"
(NoW) thing? NoW is something different (pool resources on a network
basis, not on a host basis, a bit like Level 9 or whatever the chaps at
Bell Labs call it), but... 

	Anyway, just my 2p :-)
	José
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