Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> news wrote:
>
>> Say you've got three or four or more machines at home ...
>
> 6 currently performing various functions in mine, not counting the
> spouse's NetBSD workstation:
>
> - gateway/NAT system (and another being groomed to replace that one)
> - mail, DNS, web server
> - X10/Zoneminder (CCTV) system
> - music workstation
> - "regular" workstation
> - laptop for wandering with ...
>
>> Anyway, when keeping the machines up to date, do you do one machine at
>> a time, or one piece of software at a time?
>
> I upgrade things as needed. I'll upgrade the same software on all
> systems if there's an urgent need to do so (such as security
> vulnerability). Otherwise I tend to upgrade a system at a time, but
> only as time permits or I feel a strong pull towards newer versions of
> software. The workstations and laptop are going to be upgraded much
> sooner than the other systems.
>

Yeah, I think I've been doing it wrong - per package across all machines
is proving to be a pain and no one machine ever gets really caught up,
especially the desktops.

FWIW, my home lan looks like:
2 desktops, dual boot W2k/Slackware (soon to be one desktop and one
laptop if I can get one that's not broken, but that's an HP quality
control problem...)
one file server running Slack 10.x, soon to be upgraded - space...
one linux "operations controller" (dns, dhcp, wins, ntp)
one windows domain controller (I used to be an MCSE and the wife does
MSSQL Server support)
two windows MSSQL boxes (the wife's)
one external facing ftp box (and backup web server)
one external facing web server
one remote x windows box
so, yeah, I've got a lot of machines to patch/install/tweak...
....
and the server farm consumes 570-620W according to my little EM-100 from
Canadian Tire....

FWIW, my new HP 9644CA laptop is really nice... except the first one
came with a big scratch in the screen and the second one's DVD burner is
DOA... not yet sure if there's going to be a third one... that's not
very good quality control, but the 2 hard drives will make dual booting
easier.

Anyway, off to test the burner with k3b one last time before packing it
up...

Ray