[olug] sparking a flame war.....

Thu Jun 12 04:15:57 UTC 2003

I am using up2date with Red Hat 9 and it works great.
So far I only have a demo account setup.
I even updated the kernel and it updated grub and the kernel and the source
automatically. It is as simple as running Windows 98 or XP updates via the
web browser. You only have to reboot for kernel updates and not almost every
Windows update. Like with Windows update you can also download updates
directly from the errata Red Hat site as needed.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Hinrichs
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:53 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] sparking a flame war.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Roberson" <roberson at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:33 AM
> - IMHO - rpm is a very good packaging mechanism, and is _VERY_
> thoroughly defined and documented. -- why do you think lsb defines rpm 
> as the official lsb packaging method? Dont get me wrong, I am in no 
> way saying apt or portage or xyz is any worse, But when you have the 
> majority of the dist. packagers using it already, it made sence.
I'm a fan of Redhat's up2date service. My company has paid subscriptions and
I think that it's worth the money. Great interface and does away RPM hell.
Allows you to see at a glance which machines are out of date, and the
associated errata.

Compared to managing patches on my NT boxen, I adore it.

-Jeff

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