On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:59:35 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:27:45 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: >> Is there a reason why you don't want your machine updated? > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> Yes indeed! [...] > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 14:42, Scott Silva > <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: >> He didn't say he wasn't going to update, > > Yes, he did! :-) > >> he just said he wants to do it on his schedule. Nothing wrong with >> that. As a matter of fact, it is more proper to update when you have >> tested on an enterprise system. > > Agreed, in particular with updates that bump a release (5.1 -> 5.2), I > also do it manually and not automatically. > > However, nowadays I consider updating the system and applying security > patches an essential part of the sysadmin role in a Linux environment. > > Filipe I quote from a previous post by me on this thread: "I do updates, but at times of my choice, and I watch what I get." The reason I am moving from Fedora to Centos is that on a Fedora news group I mentioned that I am interested in reliability and stability. A respondent suggested that in that case, I would be better off with Centos, since Fedora experiments with the latest and greatest, and therefore takes chances that would not be appropriate in an enterprise context. Automatic updates are inconsistent with my objective. I like to comment on my past employment years ago with a large company whose name you would recognize. I maintained control systems whose failure would cost dollars quickly counted in the millions, and could potentially endanger human life. The operating systems on these machines were well understood and long obsolete. A suggestion that they be upgraded would be met with a blank stare. I believe that the implementation of automatic updates would have resulted in dismissal. ): Mike.