I have had my first experience with up2date over the last day or so
dinking with wolverine. Actually, my time was spent getting around it
:) The interface seems to work pretty well, and the idea is probably
sound for a lot of users although $5 US /month or what ever it is seems
steep. ( I am speaking totally from ignorance and memory here, A very
dangerous combination. I apologize to RedHat if this is incorrect)
My concern is that due to the fact that I am a control freak and
placeing the wellbeing even more in the hands of a third party is really
scary to me. Especially since if you do anything to the box outside of
up2date is does not know about it. Storing all the inforamtion at RH
does not give me a warm and fuzzy either. How hard is it in a large
very dynamic company that is trying to respond to very rapid changes in
an already dynamic industry to screw up every now and then?
Am I alone in this attitude? I certainly do not begrudge RedHat for
providing a service that can be used by the masses and I hope every one
of you subscribe so that the distribution keeps getting better, but
I just don't feel comfortable not haveing any real idea what is going to
happen when I type in up2date and trust that redhat still has all my
data intact. I hate not having the time to read souce code and compie
all my own rpms too but this approach seems to be an order of magnitude
increase on the trust scale.
I would like to hear comments from both pro and con since I am trully
seeking other views here.
Bret
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