[olug] Linux updates

[Jay Swackhamer]

on RHN's up2date,

coming soon, you will either have to subscribe at $60.00
per year or there will be a survey that you have to fill out
every so many days or your account will expire, and
you will only be able to register one system for free per valid email
address........

Previously/currently you can register multiple systems to your
login, but you can only update one at a time, switching which
system has the entitlement to be updated........

I can understand why they are charging for the updates, but I would
think that they would have come up with a modest yearly fee, say $5.00
to continue to use the single-system-update method now......

but at $60.00 per year, they will probably lose more users
than they gain.....

since you could just get the critical updates on your own and
then download the ISO's and do a full upgrade when the releases
come out.......

unless there comes a time when the ISO's have to be purchased, then
people will switch distributions.......



> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Tim V - DZ  wrote:
>
>> up2date and the like are nice and all, but up2date in particular (I
>> believe) needs to be run as root, and requires a subscription to the
>> rhn website.
>
> I don't think you have to have a subscription to rhn, but if you do have
> a  subscription (entitlement in RH lingo) then you get priority over
> non-entitled  users for updates. Non-entitled systems can't typically
> get through to the  up2date servers during times of peak usage.
>
> I recently purchased an entitlement, but had been using up2date with
> good  success for the last year or so without one.
>
> As for having to be root, as far as I know, that is required in order to
>  update the rpm database and install system binaries. I usually just run
>  up2date using sudo.
>
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