Re: [PLUG] The Redhat Free Update Ride is ending

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 07:40 AM, Kam Salisbury wrote:

> It looks as though the free 'demo' use of Redhat's up2date auto package
> management and update service is coming to an end. Maybe they are 
> trying to
> qualify that huge bandwidth bill? Does this move by Redhat mean 
> anything?
> Maybe they are afraid of the recent bankruptcy filing by Mandrake?

Doubtful.  I think they are just focusing on their paying enterprise 
customers.  Can't fault them for that.

> Does this mean you should dump Redhat in favor of something else? 
> No... not
> quite. (Well yes if you are a Debian person anyway) You do not "HAVE" 
> to use
> the up2date service at all.

Or you can just use another server.  You *can* do that, you know.

I'm also a fan of apt-get for Red Hat (though if you also use up2date, 
don't forget to up2date -p after doing any apt-get stuff)

> Though, in corporate environments where Redhat
> is used, the monthly fee for service is little compared to the 
> relative ease
> of updating the system using it.

For most upgrades, yes, I like rhn.  Not for kernel upgrades, or some 
other things that we have had to customize.  But for the most part it 
is really convenient and a small price to pay for corporate use.

> I am wondering if MS will soon go to a pay
> for updates service model for their Windows Update service as well.

Who cares.  No one here, right?  ;-)

Chris Hedemark
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