[Gllug] Linuxemporium - Pink Tie

Dave Cridland [Home] dave at cridland.net
Sat Nov 23 13:28:29 UTC 2002


On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:33:56 +0000
Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> I have got used the RedHat Network but I hear good things about 
> "apt-get" (and bad).

I use it on RedHat, and it's exceedingly good indeed. Highly recommended.

Even my colleague, a Debian zealot, is pretty happy on RedHat with
apt-get installed.

http://freshrpms.net/ offer a very good version, and there are several
RedHat repositories.

> As soon and you "unbox" (the OS CD set or the pre installed hardware) 
> the first task is to download the security patches for the day...
> 
> Or is that security patches for the last ten minutes:-)

Yep, and (some of) our install disks automatically do this.

Dave.

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