Better Remote Upgrade Capabilities - Ideas?

[Phillip Susi]

Kevin Fries wrote:
> For a long time, I used to use Fedora exclusively.  The cleaner more
> user friendly Ubuntu desktop has been much better for me as a consultant
> in every way sans one.  Remote update between versions.
> 
> Here is how I would do this in Fedora:

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> Step nine, I would wait for the target machine's install process to
> start appearing on my desktop, and would then proceed with the install.

Why on earth are you talking about automated upgrade of many machines 
and then mentioning vnc?  What's wrong with ssh + apt-get dist-upgrade?