[geeks] Windows XP, and activation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 16:39 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

> >From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> >Date: 2006/11/06 Mon PM 03:05:48 CST
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows XP, and activation
> 
> >Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 08:44 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> Microsoft also has tools to allow an organization to bypass MS update
> >> servers and have desktops/servers update from a privately maintained
> >> repository which can, as I understand it, download updates as they are
> >> released and only with operator intervention will those updates be
> >> pushed out to the desktops/servers...
> >
> >Does it work on non-Windows machines?
> 
> No. Neither does any other O/S updater that I am aware of (Red
> Hat/Fedora, Solaris, and Ubuntu).

Not really true.

All of the Linux systems just need a certain directory hierarchy, and
they'll install from it using standard protocols.

Red Hat's commercial updater might be different.

For example, I once set up a Solaris machine to handle all of the
updates and patches for FreeBSD, NetBSD, Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware
all at the same time on the same hard drive.

It was nothing but an rsync script.

> Would you really want to use an MS tool to update your Solaris boxen?
> ;^)

IMHO, there is no reason for any patch server to need anything more than
a defined hierarchy with certain minimal expectations of the filesystem
it is stored on.

I mean really, can you think of any reason why this should be that hard?


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