[ale] Question on Current Red Hat Update Policies

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 14:08 -0500, Randal Jarrett wrote:
> Check out Dag's site.  He keeps the updates for RHEL on line.
> At work we use yum with his site.
> 
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/rhel/3/i386/

Check here for more info: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/

-Jim P.

> 
> Randy
> 
> On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 13:08 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > Yes.
> > 
> > RHEL is a commercial project, with licenses and the whole software company
> > thing.
> > 
> > FC is a "bleeding edge" project, with the latest and greatest (and
> > unstablest....is that a word?)  stuff in it.  You *can*, however, do regular
> > updates through apt-rpm and yum.
> > 
> > I'm using FC2 & 3 in production, becase if it came down to it, I could
> > update what I have to whatever version I want...no troubles.
> > 
> > Jerald M. Sheets jr.
> > Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
> > (404) 293-8762
> > **********
> > >su -
> > Password:
> > # cat /dev/flood > /dev/earth
> > # rdev noah??? if=noah???=/dev/earth
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:16 AM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] Question on Current Red Hat Update Policies
> > 
> > I abandoned RH for my home use when they let go of the home user market and
> > now I am faced with having to use them for a project.  I have downloaded
> > RHEL 3 and Fedora Core 3 and was wondering if one needs to buy a
> > subscription to update RHEL or not.  I was also wondering what (if any)
> > differences there are between RHEL and FC besides the official RH company
> > support for RHEL.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
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