[UFO Chicago] Re: Brian's Conversion from FreeBSD to Debian and Questions on X

[Neil R. Ormos]

Greg Groth wrote:

> Stupid question perhaps, but can anyone comment
> about the ease of following updates for various
> distros?  We had a RedHat mail server a while
> back, and it was nice to be able to run up2date
> here and there to keep the machine patched.
  [ . . . ]
> I have a couple of spare boxes around that I
> want to play around with, and looking to jump
> back in the Linux pool, but I really don't have
> time to monitor yet another mailing list to keep
> the system secure.  Does something exist on any
> distro similar to RedHat's up2date, or FreeBSD's
> notification process on keeping a system secure?

Here's an article from LinuxQuestions.org that
surveys how to do this for several high-profile
Linux distributions.

--Neil