Note from the REDHAT Road Tour !

troy fryman at sonic.net
Thu Nov 14 21:56:34 PST 2002


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:05:20AM -0800, E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:46:07AM -0800, augie wrote:
> } on a side note, i missed jeremy's answer about their update utilities.
> } do they have something like mandrake update?
> 
> I don't know what Mandrake has these days.  The Redhat updater will take
> care of dependencies, and you can pick and choose what to upgrade, but
> you still have to use their overworked servers, and register, and get
> spammed, and are limited to one computer for free unless you play games.
> In other words, no thanks I'll use apt-get for rpm.
> 

I've never gotten spammed by RH, unless you consider notification that a
package has been updated, spam.
Still, I really need to get up to speed on the whole apt thing.

-ta



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