[Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!

[Paul Broomfield]

Ill answer some other points later. But just so you know there is a
thing called NRH-up2date that claims that it is in effect a redhat
network mirror. http://www.nrh-up2date.org If there where a number of
people that would like to club together on getting a subscription and
covering the bandwidth I'd be up for implimenting one. 

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk 
>[mailto:cumbria-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Michael Saunders
>Sent: 04 March 2003 00:11
>To: cumbria@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!
>
>
>On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Schwuk wrote:
>
>> Now that would be interesting... How much would people be willing to 
>> pay for a single subscription that allows them to distribute the 
>> patches through they're own mini-RHN?
>
>There is such a product, called RHN Satellite Server or something.
>
>Now, I don't admin a large network of machines, but I don't 
>really get this. What's hard with SSHing into the boxes and 
>"wget... ; rpm -Fvh"  
>the updated packages? It wouldn't take all that long on 100ish 
>boxes with a decent pipe to the Net, and would be completely 
>free. Plus, big security fixes don't appear all that often and 
>wouldn't necessarily need to be applied to every box immediately.
>
>Yeah, it's not elegant if you're managing 1,000+ boxes, but in that 
>kind of company RH's pricing is pocket change :)
>
>Ah well, I'm drunkenly ranting on. Cool!
>
>> They are still a long way off becoming 'another MS' though...
>
>Not a "long way". Never.
>
>They can NEVER become "another MS", because they can never be 
>the single vendor for Linux-based solutions.
>
>Mike
>
>-- 
>Michael Saunders
>www.aster.fsnet.co.uk
>
>
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