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Most books on Linux software package management limit themselves to one or perhaps two distros. After all, each flavor of Linux seems to use a different tool for package management on the system. Michael Jang decides to take on all the major systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora, SUSE, and Debian, plus several others. The range of this book goes from patch management on the individual computer to updating software packages on entire networks.
Chances are that if you have just burned your first Ubuntu installation disk from an image and are toying with the idea of loading it on that old computer now harboring a long abandoned Windows 98 OS, you may not want to start out with Linux Patch Management. This book assumes the reader has at least some knowledge with Linux and at a minimum, is a newbie Linux administrator (or perhaps a talented wannabe). The complete Linux newbie will need to earn a few stripes before moving on to this guide.
The proud owner of this text may not necessarily want to read every chapter. The various chapters describe the use of the specific patch management tools used by different distros. If you are a Debian junkie (and who wouldn't want to be?), you may be focused on the apt system and could not care less about YaST or yum. However in this review, we are going to take the complete guided tour of everything Linux Patch Management has to offer. Let's go.
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