WBEL does have "up2date" like features. Actually I had my server set to automatically check for updates at night and install them. I had to turn this off as I've gotten to the point of having more and more custom rpms for special features I wanted that were not supported in the stock rhel/wbel distro. As for security updates, WBEL has been doing a very good job as far as I can tell of keeping on top of things. They certainly aren't as quick as a paid subscription to one of RedHat's versions, but what do you expect for free? I would say I can get updates almost as fast as Fedora Core updates if you take into account how busy the FC update servers get when a new batch of patches come out.
-David On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:36, Turnpike Man wrote: > I still hold concerns for distros such as WBEL and CentOS as to whether the > updates will be available as quickly as necessary. Also, are there "up2date" > like features that will let me know when something needs to be updated? Manual > updates do not appeal to me in the least. > > David M. > > --- Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David, > > > > Sorry for the slow reply, but for best compatibility and long-term > > management, I highly recommend you install the "CentOS" clone of RHEL > > instead of FCx. This way, you won't have to upgrade every 6 mos. or so > > when a new version of Fedora Core comes out, and you'll be using the > > same tested code base of RHEL. > > > > See http://www.centos.org/ > > > > Regards, > > Jeremy > > > > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:13, Turnpike Man wrote: > > > I was curious... I am about to purchase a Dell 750 1U, just released a > > couple > > > weeks ago replacing the 650 model. I don't want to pay the cost of RHEL > > just > > > to run a webserver on good hardware. Is anyone aware of any potential > > issues > > > or is anyone running FCx on a Dell PE 650/750 and how is it going for you? > > > > > > thanks, > > > David M. -- David A. Cafaro dac(at)trilug.org Admin to User: "You did what!?!?!" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
