Chris Hedemark on Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:24:04 -0500


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


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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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