The fact of the matter is, although RedHat and friends are probably unwilling to admit
it, Debian's apt-get solves all of your problems: no price, no data is stored on any
computer but the host computer, and it works. I'm not trying to start a distro war,
only saying that a perfectly working system has already been developed and debuged,
and RH simply doesn't want to use anything but their own software. Besides they would
lose money if they offered apt-get like Connectiva :-)
Basically, up2date is a Corporate rip-off, and is NOT for "the good of the people",
even if it does help *some*.
At 05:12 PM 3/29/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>I have had my first experience with up2date over the last day or so
>dinking with wolverine. Actually, my time was spent getting around it
>:) The interface seems to work pretty well, and the idea is probably
>sound for a lot of users although $5 US /month or what ever it is seems
>steep. ( I am speaking totally from ignorance and memory here, A very
>dangerous combination. I apologize to RedHat if this is incorrect)
>
>My concern is that due to the fact that I am a control freak and
>placeing the wellbeing even more in the hands of a third party is really
>scary to me. Especially since if you do anything to the box outside of
>up2date is does not know about it. Storing all the inforamtion at RH
>does not give me a warm and fuzzy either. How hard is it in a large
>very dynamic company that is trying to respond to very rapid changes in
>an already dynamic industry to screw up every now and then?
>
>Am I alone in this attitude? I certainly do not begrudge RedHat for
>providing a service that can be used by the masses and I hope every one
>of you subscribe so that the distribution keeps getting better, but
>I just don't feel comfortable not haveing any real idea what is going to
>happen when I type in up2date and trust that redhat still has all my
>data intact. I hate not having the time to read souce code and compie
>all my own rpms too but this approach seems to be an order of magnitude
>increase on the trust scale.
>
>I would like to hear comments from both pro and con since I am trully
>seeking other views here.
>
>Bret
>
>
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