Ed Wilts wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:16:26AM -0700, Robert Monical wrote: > > >>I installed RedHat 7.2 last night: boxed set. >>When I tried to run up2date wu-ftpd I get a message (this was midnight >>Pacific time). >>Due to extremely high traffic............. >> >>I then found the place to register a 30 day subscription to software >>updates from the Product Activation Card. >> >>This morning I was able to execute up2date wu-ftpd. >> >>At $60/year for a basic subscription RHN becomes more expensive than >>Win2K-Pro ($165/updates are free). Less if you have a bunch of NT 4 WS >>licenses to upgrade, as do I. The numbers make more sense when compared to >>Win2K Server pricing. Note that u$oft Licensing allows me to run Oracle on >>Win2k Pro and I am not detecting any ill effects in our environment. >> >> > >A WinXP Pro license retails for $199. No volume license will give you a >full license - they're all upgrade licenses. A new release comes out >every few years. Do the math based on a 3 or 5 year cycle. > >Note that up2date is optional. You can freely ftp the updates any time >and apply them. up2date is an extra service to help you manage those >updates, something that neither Sun nor Microsoft offer. > > > >>2. Pay more than for Solaris Intel and Win2K Pro to have a critical update >>service. >> >> > >Nope - all the critical updates are free. What you pay for the smooth >integration of those updates, and for a single system, even those are >free. > > > >>Was my experience with up2date last night an anomaly? >> >> > >Not really. I see this whenever a large batch of updates come through. >If I have Internet-facing servers that are at risk because those updates >aren't applied, I simply ftp the patches down and apply them, then later >on do an up2date -p to bring the package list up to date. > > .../Ed > > Check out the KRUD distro. RedHat with monthly patches applied. You get a new distro every month. Mount it on a service and do the upgrades from the server for all bazillion of your servers. Total cost per year is one subscription, around $65.
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