new Red Hat coming

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:21:16 -0700


Easy, updates.redhat.com, or any of the mirrors they list with updates.  Not as 
easy as apt or gentoos emerge, but works.

>>I still dont see how people keep red hat up to date reasonably without
>>purchasing some service to make doing so reasonable.
> 
> 
> That's fine as long as the security updates are easy to get at no cost.
> Personally, I think $40/year is pretty cheap for all the software we have
> available :). Yes, I know, we have debian, we have easy updates, we get them
> for no cost. Someone's paying for the bandwidth and the key is security
> updates, so if a company wants to charge for a download service and people
> will pay that generally gives us more resources for Free Software
> development.
> 
> 
>>I know people cry that Debian is stale, but if you know where to get
>>sources.list lines generally you can find bleeding edge everything.
>>http://www.apt-get.org is now around to help make people not in the know,
>>more informed on how to get current packaging while staying on the stable
>>version of Debian.
> 
> 
> Having to do this really cuts down on the beauty of apt for most people. I'm
> glad we can do it, but it's not something everyone should have to do. We
> need a "mostly stable" dist :). testing usually is, but stability isn't the
> goal of testing. testing is the goal of testing.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans