[geeks] Windows XP, and activation

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2006/11/06 Mon PM 03:05:48 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Windows XP, and activation

>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 @ 08:44 -0600, Lionel Peterson said:

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>> Microsoft also has tools to allow an organization to bypass MS update
>> servers and have desktops/servers update from a privately maintained
>> repository which can, as I understand it, download updates as they are
>> released and only with operator intervention will those updates be
>> pushed out to the desktops/servers...
>
>Does it work on non-Windows machines?

No. Neither does any other O/S updater that I am aware of (Red Hat/Fedora, Solaris, and Ubuntu).

Would you really want to use an MS tool to update your Solaris boxen? ;^)

Lionel