[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

Tue Mar 31 00:13:51 UTC 2009
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

> I really like a lot of things about Solaris.  I dislike a lot of things
> about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with
> JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than
> Sun's package -> patchid + 8000 different patch management tools.  pca
> is the closest thing out there to a simple way to see what should be
> applied to your system, but just not quite the same.
>   

the new IPS package manager is okay. Doing image-updates has reasonably 
worked well too.