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
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