[Gllug] VACANCY: Linux Technical Consultant / Architect required

[Xander D Harkness]

John Hearns wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:58, Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>Mark Lowes wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 08:51, robin.c.smith at bt.com wrote:
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>>>>>From: Tethys [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
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>>>>To patch Debian for the latest security patches you just type:- apt-get
>>>>dist-upgrade.
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>>>Assuming you have the right lines in sources.list ;)
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>>>However with the likes of up2date this edge isn't that significant.
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>>I would agree; I would however like to see Red Hat relese the server 
>>side of this.  I know that they make money from RHN and every company I 
>>install servers in I recommend that they subscribe.  $60 a year for 
>>computer security is cheap to a company and it is an easier way to get 
>>cash out of companies back into the pockets of the developers.  
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>Well, I don't agree.
>This is a commercial product offered by Redhat. I think its perfectly
>OK.
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Oh, I think it is perfectly okay - just saying I would find it useful 
:-)  I am very happy for SuSE, Red Hat et al. to make lots of cash.  The 
more cash they have the better software I get.

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>For information, if you have a big(ish) business Redhat offer Satellite
>Server, which sounds very interesting.
>You can have your own up2date server within the company - and aslo from
>what I read trigger software updates.
>I and our Linux Experts group are very interested in this
>(we have a BIG user base), but sadly the cost for Satellite Server is
>a drawback.
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>Also, for information, Ximian have a similar product, 
>http://www.ximian.com/products/redcarpet_corporateconnect/
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>>I have tried recommending donations to the FSF, to gnome, Kernel hackers 
>>or Samba and it never happens.  Get a RHN sub and it is at least some 
>>form of revenue strem for Linux.
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>>Back to the release of the server side of RHN though:  I would like to 
>>see it so that people like me or small organisations can set up our own 
>>mirrors and add our own packages to they - very much like the Debian system.
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>I've done a lot of work on this topic recently.
>The best solution I found, if you want a no-cost solution is Current
>http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/
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This has come on a lot since I last looked at it.  It looks fun :-)


Kind regards
Xander

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