[TriLUG] redhat-config-network question

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Kevin Sonney wrote:

> While a lot of people are going to chant "use apt-rpm! use apt-rpm!"

Yep.

> because, well, it's the cool tool of the month,

Oh come on.  It's been cool way longer than that (since, what, RHL 6.2?)

> I'm going to go the
> other way - rhn_register and up2date are your friends. use rhn_register
> to register with RHN (it's free!) and then "up2date -i"
> redhat-config-network - up2date will resolve your dependencies, and
> install what's needed to make it run. Plus you can "up2date -u" to get
> all the latest errata for 7.3, with their proper depends resolved.

up2date is pretty cool for enterprise use, but for individuals I have 
privacy concerns about storing my config data on 3rd party servers, 
when really there is no need for that.  If privacy is a concern, and it 
should be as a matter of security-mindedness, apt-rpm really does come 
out looking nicer than up2date and rhn.  Where rhn really shines is 
managing groups of systems, and *that* is not free.

> address some of these issues, but that's not in 7.3, only 8.0 and
> Phoebe.

<rant level="minor">
8.0 is still bleeding edge, and "unsupported".  I found out the hard 
way.  Got sick of things not working with 8.0, finding out it isn't 
covered under the company support contract, and backed off to 7.3.  
Things are running much better now.  In any case, run 8.0 if you don't 
mind bleeding edge features that are unsupported and possibly b0rked 
with no real hope of repair.  If you want your machine to work, run 
7.3.  And don't forget to install gnome, even if you have no interest 
in running it.
</rant>

Chris Hedemark
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