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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Flavors of Linux

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 13:02:29 01/21/00

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On January 21, 2000 at 13:45:22, Chip Piller wrote:

>On January 21, 2000 at 09:22:09, Dan Homan wrote:
>
>>I use redhat myself, but one drawback is that there is no
>>automatic updating facility (As bugs and security holes are found in
>>certian parts of linux, the fixes are posted on Redhat's website and
>>you have to download and install them yourself).  I think the mandrake
>>distribution has an automated update facility.
>>
>>I've heard good things about Calderra's OpenLinux and Corel's Linux
>>distribution.  Both are supposed to be very easy to install and configure.
>>
>> - Dan
>
>If you buy the Official RedHat you can get priority package updates using
>RedHat's up2date tool.
>If you don't buy Official RedHat you can update the packages on your machine
>using a single rpm command with the freshen option. It is very easy to do and
>you can set this up in a cron job to automatically update your machine if you
>like.
>Chip

Cool, I didn't know about the up2date tool.  I'll check it out, thanks.

 - Dan



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