----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R P Herrold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: RH AS subscription license


> On 23 Nov 2002, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, One of the reasons they don't distribute ISO's of AS online is
> > there are some packages that they can't. IBM's JRE is one example.  I'm
> > sure the inconvience factor is another valid reason as well.
> 
> or that 'tire kickers' would eat up bandwidth pulling ISO's
> that most will never effectively use, of a release which is
> largely RHL 7.2 -- it is not GPL required as to providing
> ISO's (here or elsewhere) --  Why spend that resource in a

Shure. 
And I want to know does GPL allows me to install  _binary_ updates
to several servers?

> non-wide market realm?  As it says: "So if you use Red Hat
> Linux to burn MP3s and frag your friends playing Quake,
> Advanced Server is not for you."
>  

Well, I'm talking about RH AS.
I really need enterprise distribution  :-) Now we use SLES7...

> > When you buy one copy of AS with a 1 year service contract you also get
> > 1 redhat network entitlement for the AS channel.  which is the only way
> > you can get binary updates.
> 
> ummm ... perhaps this is better said 'which is the only way
> you can get RHN binary updates' -- ftp mirroring of the
> updates and application through a non up2date tool still
> works.

For RH AS only srpms available on ftp://updates.redhat.com

Really, this is why I asked this question...




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