Chris Schumann wrote: > One of the cool features (I think) of Red Hat is the Red Hat Network. I have > a small server running RH9 for mail, web mail and simple web page hosting. > > When I learn from Red Hat or CERT that vulnerabilities have been patched, I > run up2date and have the latest versions; and for a pretty modest fee. Now > they want $349 a year? I think the $179 WS desktop version "isn't for > servers" so updates to Apache, sendmail and such probably won't be updated. > Bah. > > I think as long as RPM's are still readily and quickly available, it will > still be fairly easy to update Fedora. > > Hmmm.... Perhaps there's an oppotunity for a small agile company to simply > provide a server for up2date to connect to for a cheaper fee. > > I think it's time to try Fedora on my laptop. > > Chris > Go to freshrpms and get the apt4rpm rpms and install them. You can then do an 'apt-get install synaptic' to get a graphical front end to apt, and from there you can keep your system 'up2date' pretty easily. You can point apt to any repository that works for you, although you apparently need to be carefull about mixing repositories. Kent _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list