On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:13, Martin Stricker wrote: > Buck wrote: > > > Don't try to read in or out anything. I talked to Red Hat Sales. > > The man told me that RED HAT will not be offering the demo or basic > > up2date service any longer. Up2date on Red Hat is only available > > with the purchase of one of the three enterprise products. > > So if I use RHL/Fedora on my private box, where I really don't need an > enterprise OS and definitely no support, I'm out in the rain without > regular and automatic updates? Not good! I really hope Red Hat makes > up2date available for the home user as well, or I'm forced to look for > another distro (Debian I guess). Would be a pity... > > So Red Hat again changed direction in it's politics. Since around the > introduction of RHL 8.0 Red Hat changed their politics several times, > after beeing straightforward for so many years... Even my bosses have > noticed, and asked me to look for a Linux distro manufacturer which > doesn't confuse their customers. I think I will vote for Debian - the > developers show an annoying degree of arrogance, but at least I can be > sure that won't change... ;-))) > > Frustrated, > Martin Stricker > -- > Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ > Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ > Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ > Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ > Hey Guy's try apt-get for Redhat. It is great and you can go from just getting security patches to bleeding edge....depending on which server you download your updates from and apt-get makes sure you have all dependencies met before installing packages - to minimize breakage. That's not to say I haven't broken my system with it, but I have been able to get the patches when needed and the breaks were minor and the next package release usually fixed it in a day or so. I know the apt-get packages are available at: http://www.freshrpms.net and http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software Hope this helps. :) Ron
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