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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2003 1:06 UTC (Thu) by torsten (guest, #4137)
Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

"Switching a large number of servers to a new Linux distribution is rarely a stress-free process."

Are there tools to manage multiple servers at once - updating/maintaining each OS and separate configuration files or different services? How about parallel installs, etc?


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Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2003 7:46 UTC (Thu) by ngiger@mus.ch (subscriber, #4013) [Link]

Look at the Fully Automatic Installer (FAI), a Debian package at
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/.

For administration I use cfengine version 2 (http://www.cfengine.org/) which is a good tool to keep all your servers (or SOHO machines) in a good shape.

Both tools (or their intended useage) require a good deal of planning
and good understanding of how they work to get good results.

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