Re: RHN Entitlements

From: GC (gc_at_goaway.now)
Date: 05/27/04


Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:48:14 -0400

Nevermind.

A little research led me to yum. Thanks for any and all who would have
helped.

GC

"GC" <gc@goaway.now> wrote in message news:Pvatc.6159$0d6.4916@lakeread03...
> I have just loaded RH9 and am fairly new to Linux. I would definitely
> consider myself a Linux newbie. I am not, however, a comuting newbie.
>
> I have XP/RH9 dual booting at home and a dedicated RH9 box at work. I ran
> up2date at home and downloaded everything that needed to be updated. I
tried
> to do the same at work and was told that I had to order entitlements for
any
> machines beyond my first.
>
> My question is whether buying the entitlemnt is worth the money or is
> downloading and patching packages individually easy enough? When you run
> Up2Date you are told which packages need to be updated, so it could just
be
> a matter of searching the web for each update one at a time.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> GC
>
>



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