On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, John Paul wrote: .. > > in every release, and their RPM system sucks, IMHO. > > They have a network update called "up2date" that > > is GREAT but costs money ($5 /month). Withouth > > up2date the RPM files are just hard to figure > > out manually (had to be installed in a certain order).
be thankful redhat is doing that, otherwise they wouldn't have the $$$ to pay for further linux development. realise that a lot of kernel developers are on redhat's payroll. people are always whining about this and that and i don't want to pay and Mr Filthy took away my caaaaannnnddddyyyy. it all boils down to whether you can pay for support or not. besides, up2date is free -- it's just, if you don't pay, you get to connect to slower mirrors. i don't see why that is not fair, bandwidth costs money. also you can use Ximian's redcarpet (which i prefer, since it's better looking than up2date). > It depends. Been using RH and is going smooth. If you use RPMS then most > likely that your system will really suck. Using sourcetarball here =) quantify "suck." that aside, i think your *opinions* are just that -- opinions. there's no need for distro-specific bigotry here. if you have lots of time to spend updating your system, by all means use whatever you want. rememeber that redhat is geared towards enterprises. for them, $5/month is tiny compared to the total TCO of $10k/year for a single machine. up2date/redcarpet allows you to deploy updates seamlessly to many, many desktops, easily. that's the whole purpose of it. so if in your own workplace, you don't have that need, then by all means don't use it. but tossing out casual "RPM sucks" comments is neither useful nor helpful. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
