OT: Linux Distrobutions?

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Paul wrote:

>I'm not after the latest versions of software.  What I really liked
>about RH 8 was the Up2Date utility that I ran via a weekly cron job to
>automatically applied security patches for me (I didn't pay for the full
>maintenance but was considering it seriously).  The Fedora project ain't
>gonna give me this, it seems certain.
>
>

in rh7.x was
  rhn-needed-packages

in rh8.0/9/fedora-core
  rhn-applet-gui, rhn-applet-tui



up2date can now handle
apt and yum - repositories

yum will be included in fedora-core (severn)
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.3-1.noarch.rpm

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
eg.
# yum check-update
# yum update package*
...


apt-get
http://freshrpms.net/



# rpm -Fvh http://updates.redhat.com/path/to/your/arch



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shrek-m