Perpetual Fedora

2021-11-07 Thread Rick Marshall
I'm trying to understand why we have to have Fedora versions. Fedora is a my favourite Linux however the version upgrade is problematic when managing large numbers of machines. I have my reasons for using it in production as a desktop, but not as a server. Why do we have versions instead of c

Re: Perpetual Fedora

2021-11-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/7/21 19:11, Rick Marshall wrote: I'm trying to understand why we have to have Fedora versions. Fedora is a my favourite Linux however the version upgrade is problematic when managing large numbers of machines. I have my reasons for using it in production as a desktop, but not as a server

Re: Perpetual Fedora

2021-11-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 03:11:55AM +, Rick Marshall wrote: > I'm trying to understand why we have to have Fedora versions. > > Fedora is a my favourite Linux however the version upgrade is > problematic when managing large numbers of machines. I have my > reasons for using it in production as

Re: Perpetual Fedora

2021-11-08 Thread Rick Marshall
Thank you for your response Matthew. At times we can be managing several hundred desktops. They get installed over time and with a script that makes sure they auto-update packages and reboot if there is a kernel update. For systems that can't be allowed to reboot we get an email advising us. A

Re: Perpetual Fedora

2021-11-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 11:38:27PM +, Rick Marshall wrote: > At times we can be managing several hundred desktops. They get > installed over time and with a script that makes sure they > auto-update packages and reboot if there is a kernel update. For > systems that can't be allowed to reboot w