I would like to second this. The question you have to ask yourself is - are you 100% confident in your ability to stay up to the minute on security patches, and once you discover one have the skills to apply it no matter how complicated the application is or how busy you are?
For myself, the answer to both those questions is no. I joined rhn a couple weeks ago and since then there have been 4 patches releases. I get an email, I click the link, I click update these systems and I am done. It's a little like renting a one hundred thousandth piece of a seasoned, professional systems manager for a year :-) On 10/12/02 8:49 AM, "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:50:12PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: >> The $60/year gets you a priority access to the "queue" when new updates >> come out. You'll find that when new updates come out, and the up2date >> servers get busy, that RH will restrict them to the paying customers, >> first...once that demand goes down, the freebie folks get access, again. > > And let's put this further into perspective. In several cases, there have > been in-the-wild security exploits. If you are not keeping yourself up to > date, your system is vulnerable. You may find that you have to go to a > mirror site, grab the updates and dependencies yourself, and then do an > up2date -p to tell the RHN servers that you've manually changed your > package list. When 8.0 came out and RHN members got priority access to > the ISOs, you could forget about applying security patches through RHN > unless you were a paid member. > > So the bottom line is that you can live without paying the $60/year if > you're not running a production server and can live with being not quite > current. Alternatively, you can download and configure one of the free > clones. > > The way I look it is for $60 per year, I get free OS releases and all > the patches. That's a bargain, and I'm a paying RHN member. > > .../Ed -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
