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Did you know you can use Sun Connection and baselines to update your Solaris and Linux hosts?

A baseline is a dated collection of patches, patch metadata and tools -- Sun releases them for Solaris every month. By using baselines, you can easily track the patch level of your hosts.

Let's say you create a test host on which you deploy a particular baseline. You could test this host for a period of time to ensure that the patches in this baseline are stable enough to be used on your production host. When the testing reveals that this baseline is stable, you can install the same baseline you tested on your production host.

Learn more about baselines on sun.com -- and you will no longer have to worry about figuring patch dependencies...

» Read the full article: How to Use Sun Connection and Baselines to Patch the Solaris OS