On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > 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. Haven't tried this at all... if it's "free"[1] I will. If it's a large extra cost, I'll stick with PCA :-) Also, do to the nature of many of the Solaris patches (which require reboots), the LiveUpgrade feature has been a life-saver. Not as necessary in the Linux world, but at least now I can patch my production servers more easily without scheduling a couple hour sof downtime. :) Ray