[ale] Fedora and RHN?

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Nov 6 07:33:38 EST 2003


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> One thing I haven't seen clarified anywhere is the "migration path" for
> home users like myself who have paid for and rely on RHN for updates.  
> Anybody know if that service will be included/available with Fedora?

RHN updates will be available through the EOL of RHL 9 (April 30, 2004). If
your subscription expires after that, you'll get an eval (ie, no support)
copy of RHEL WS, and updates from RHN for it for as long as your
subscription lasts. You also get special pricing if you want to switch to
RHEL and keep your RHN subscription.

Fedora doesn't use RHN. You can get updates and such using up2date, but it's 
just pulling from a yum repository and you can also directly run yum to 
update it.

See <https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/> for all the specific 
details, or <http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/> for more 
general info about the Fedora / RHEL choice.

later,
chris



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