Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Shane Hickey (shane@howsyournetwork.com)
Date: 03/26/03

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To: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
Date: 26 Mar 2003 10:40:50 -0700

    On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:42, Seth Arnold wrote:
    > 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.

    Don't forget about Gentoo's emerge. 

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