>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. >
Everything is available through the Redhat ftp site for free. Not to mention multiple mirror ftp sites. I've never paid the $60 fee and have never had a problem with out of date servers or workstations. Anthony -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
