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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Quoting tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Rob Beard wrote: > >>> At a previous company I used to work for they would generally delay >>> updates for testing for about a fortnight to test against all the >>> different systems, unless that is it was an ultra urgent update. >> Last company where I worked at doing some form of MS admin we looked >> at that: >> To test you need as many servers for the test as you have live so that >> costs you twice as much in licenses!!! >> Tom te tom te tom >> > > To be fair, the company I worked at was a radio group. It would have > probably worked out cheaper to have spare test machines and servers > kicking around than to risk it screwing up and potentially loosing the > company revenue on sales and also possibly exposing them to multiple > fines from Ofcom due to things like audio logging not working. > > Even when they did rollouts, it was still on a limited basis to start > with luckily as with 3 of us covering 6 sites across South Devon, a big > screwup would have been disastrous. > > It may be different with other organisations, maybe some organisations > can afford to have down time, or do things differently. In the case of > one of my current customers, they have a couple of spare PCs, and in > total they have only about 8 PCs, so it's no major problem to just do > one PC at a time, and if a PC fails they have a spare to use. > > Rob > > > > I guess in some ways the same applies to upgrades on Linux, I had 8.10 and eventually upgraded to 9.04, I am always worried that something will go wrong, either software, power surge, or other issues during the upgrade that will cause the upgrade to fail to a point where the system won't boot or worse won't turn on at all. I think applying updates seems to be a skill set in it's self, and choosing not to do something can make a big difference. I did an upgrade on my 2nd system 8.10 to 9.04 to check it went ok, but that is fine but it differes from system to system, I alwys wait a while anyway to make sure there are no teething issues, like many people who jump on the upgrade wagon as soon as a new release is out. I will probably not upgrade to 10.04, using software, but will probably do a clean install. It needs a clean install every so often, so the next LTS relase seems logical. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktZog8ACgkQaggq1k2FJq01qACglBAn9k01vjWAN0GQxNVJgL4+ aeQAnjDQzh83KmhqWLNO+M9izbjlQ+e8 =idHv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html