The newer versions of up2date have support for yum and apt repositories. up2date is not totally dead. (Even if it sort of does suck). :-)
Translation:
Red Hat have rolled over on their insistence on a proprietary update protocol, in favour of more open stuff developed elsewhere, for both the Fedora and (end of life) Red Hat Linux products.
3rd party apt / yum repositories have been around for a while. 3rd party up2date repostitories are non-existent, except for a few private ones using current, and I guess even most of those have converted to yum. I know I've converted all of mine to yum.
Let me restate:
up2date is dead. Long live apt+yum. :)
(For those of us who were around when the gov't finally rolled over on allowing TCP/IP into their networks alongside OSI/GOSIP and its many-layered and many-headed incarnations ... I was there for the announcement at, I think, AUUG 1995 ... and everyone said "GOSIP is dead, long live TCP/IP" ... and the government representatives said "no, we will still have GOSIP alongside TCP/IP" ... and everyone else laughed ... and within 6 months GOSIP was truly dead, and we still have TCP/IP).
-- Del
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