Red Hat 9 up2date question

[Submit]

Recently switeched from SuSE to Red Hat (but I might switch back...) So, my question is I would like to use up2date to get the latest patches. Is this not a free service anymore to endusers? I recall in the past Red Hat allowed to have one machine use their update service free.

 

[Grminalac]

I believe you can get a basic version for a short period of time, anything else requires a subscription fee. Keep in mind however that Red Hat is ending the product support for 9.0 in April 2004, so you wouldn't be able to use up2date after that time anyway even if you did buy a subscription.

 

[Submit]

hmmm, thanks for the info....maybe I will give debain a try as it seems many people here like it

 

[drag]

You can use other stuff then up2date. The fedora uses Yum (which is what Redhat is using as a replacement for the Redhat 9.0 line of products) to keep stuff up to date. Never used it.

Also apt4rpm is nice. Check out Freshrpms.net

 

[Ynog]

I use Demo accounts for the Red hat network. Not sure if they are still available.
But I have been using a demo account for over 2 years. They are kind of a pain, but free.
You don't get priority to up2date servers. However they really aren't all that busy unless
something major comes out, like an opensll or glibc update.

Every so often Red hat sends me an email telling me to fill out a survey or they will
deactivate my account. I fill out the survey and they continue it.

 

[Submit]

I will try your suggestions, as for the most part I am pretty happy with Rad Hat 9. Thanks.