[Hudlug] Blueyonder Broadband

[Les Burns]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 15:02, R.I.Kirkcaldy@Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> Quoting Tim Bray <tim@kooky.org>:
> > 
> > > The client machines are all windows 98/XP, and the router is Redhat
> > 7.2 if it 
> > > makes any difference.
> > 
> > Be very careful with RH and security.  You will get hacked unless you 
> > have all the latest security patches installed.  The last I heard, you
> > 
> > had to pay for redhatnetwork to get security updates.
> > 
> > 
> > Tim
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently looking at using apt4rpm to update packages.  Not having internet 
> access for the redhat machine yet, I'm not sure how well it will work.  
> However, it is free as opposed to $60/year which Redhat try to charge - so I'm 
> going to try and get it running.
> Worth an article on the website if it works?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Kirkcaldy
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I've been using apt-rpm for 3weeks now and find it really useful. The
problem you will encounter is the lack of up to date repositories. Its
not that people who maintain these lag massively behind, its just where
security is an issue. For example, the recent problems with openSSH were
not solved by running "upgrade" or install, but rather by me doing
things by hand.