On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 01:41:20PM -0600, Kelly Sauke wrote:
> Does anyone know of any software for linux that acts similar to "Live 
> Upgrade" in Solaris or "Alternate Release Areas" in DG/UX? 

I don't know what "Live Upgrade" or "Alternate Release Areas" are, but I
_think_ you are talking about automatic updating tools.

Debian's apt is tried and true.

RedHat's up2date is newer, and seems to keep people happy.

Mandrake has something, but I can't recall its name. upnrm or something.

I bet SuSE's YAST2 has something similar.

<plug>
I also recommend reading a refereed paper published at USENIX LISA 2002,
about the quality of security patches and best times to apply patches.
http://immunix.org/~crispin/time-to-patch-usenix-lisa02.ps.gz [400k]
http://immunix.org/~crispin/time-to-patch-usenix-lisa02.pdf [214k]
The short of it is: critical systems might not want automatic patch
application.
</plug>


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