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Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System?

Posted by timothy on from the entrepreneurial-spirit dept.

cdlu writes "Where oh where is the plug-and-play Linux business computer? Robin Miller asks the question and makes the case for starting a business to sell a self-updating networked Linux system for small business. Any takers?" (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)

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  1. Re:use debian by skiman1979 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Mandrake:

    # touch /etc/cron.daily/update_system;echo "urpmi.update -a -c;urpmi --update --force --auto-select" > /etc/cron.daily/update_system;chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/update_system

    Gentoo:

    # touch /etc/cron.daily/update_system;echo "emerge sync;emerge -u world" > /etc/cron.daily/update_system;chmod 700 /etc/cron.daily/update_system

    Shouldn't have to edit any config files in either case. Although with Gentoo, you may have to do something with etc-update.

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