Hmm, I'm using the "one computer" demo/free arrangements (for just one computer!), and don't seem to have got any sort of notification that this was about to end.
These 'series of emails' - have they been sent to all RHN subscribers, or ist this just a rumour? - steve PS: My feeling is that the costs are probably not unreasonable if the service itself seems reasonable - ie some people just 'do everything themselves' anyway and would prefer not to have this sort of automaticed nany approach - so they can save some $$. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 February 2003 10:37 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: Redhat Network, apt, up2date, urpmi etc <flamebait warning> up2date/RedHat network is the redhat "equivalent" of apt. It downloads updates when you ask it to, it also calculates dependencies - if you tell it to install a package it willl calculate its dependencies, download them and install them. It will even update your kernel successfully (yes I know most people would not trust this to automation, but it does work - leaving you to reboot and choose the new kernel from the grub menu). To use it you need to either set up/find an independent up2date repository OR subscribe to redhat network. Up till now subscription was free for one computer per user, and they never seemed to know that several "users" could have one email address and effectively this meant one person could subscribe many machines for free. One problem has been that unlike debian/apt the RHN repository was centralised and prone to being too busy to give the lower priority free users 24/7 access. Now they seem to have cottoned on or become too overloaded and a series of emails from RHN seems to imply that (1) accounts with different usernames but the same email address will be deleted; and (2) "demo" (read free) accounts will be done away with, Another blow for the freedom of apt-get and apt/rpm (and urpmi for that matter). As I said earlier, you CAN set up your own up2date enabled redhat repository, trouble is there do not seem to be many of them about. (Ryurick had a university access only one at one stage, dunno if it still operates). So, if people move wholesale to apt-rpm, are we going to see the relatively few redhat-apt-rpm repositories like freshrpms.net falling over or wirhdrawing from the race due to bandwidth blowing out? </flamebait warning> -- "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk ========================================================= http://www.commarc.co.nz (This e-mail has been scanned by MailMarshal)
