[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[Dow Hurst]

Based on the current thread's info, I don't see why you have to stick 
with any "corporatized" Linux distro.  I was talking with Geoffrey and a 
KSU student Matthew Macumber.  Geoffrey and I were talking about 
upgrading from SUSE 8.2 to 9.0 since we can. ;-)   There was some app, I 
think Mozilla, that I mentioned had a new cool feature, a spell checker, 
I think.  So we were talking about having to upgrade the 9.0's mozilla 
to that newest version and asking Matthew what version he was using, he 
said "I use Gentoo so I am already up to date."  So, that has motivated 
me to really try Gentoo 1.4 which is installing on my laptop.  I'll pass 
on my experience at some point.

I am rambling a little but my point is that why deal with RH if you can 
have a more seamless upgrade path via a ports based distro with extras 
added such as special kernels?  After reading the posts, if the prices 
are what y'all are saying they are for 64bit RH kernel then there is no 
way people will be happy with that.  I can just hear people saying "who 
cares what is stable or secure if it costs a fortune?"

I like the RHN and how it is easy to upgrade/patch stuff.  This new Dell 
workstation in my office has been my first experience with modern RH 
distros.  I can see how someone would get used to clicking on the little 
cute flashing icon, let RHN apply the patch, and going on with work.
Dow

PS. Eventually, I might try FreeBSD as well, but I like Linux.


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?
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>Thanks,
>Krum
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