Subj : Re: A good distro.
To   : Outlaw
From : Sniper
Date : Wed Apr 06 2005 09:11 pm

-=> Outlaw wrote to Sniper <=-

 Ou>   Re: Re: A good distro.
 Ou>   By: Sniper to Glendad on Tue Apr 05 2005 05:06 am

 > Debian is not nearly as easy to setup as most of the others... But once
 > you figure out the install and get to the internal workings, figure out
 > apt... its much easier to deal with than any of the others.

 Ou> Thats where I'm at. I've found Debian to be easier to upgrade. Every
 Ou> night at 2am, cron runs a small bash script on my Debian machine which
 Ou> automatically updates it. Its only two lines long.

 Ou> !/bin/sh

 Ou> apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade

 Ou> Put it in /usr/local/bin and run crontab.

 Ou> Give it any name you want. I called mine apt-automate.
 Ou> No more "chasing iso releases" for me. I've always got the latest.

Couldn't agree more... 

If you haven't heard of Webmin, I also highly suggest it...  Makes life
even easier...



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