[lug] RHN Basic--Worth the money?

[Nate Duehr]

Ditto all of Kirk's sentiments about RHN Basic.  I also had that "oh Boy..
here goes nothing..." feeling about that first kernel update, but that was
over a year ago, and now I just let it do its thing.  It works.

You also get priority access to ISO downloads, and they just announced today
that RHN subscribers will have access to RH 9.0 downloads on the 31st, one
week before they're released to the public on the standard FTP servers, etc.

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Rafferty" <kirk at fpcc.net>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] RHN Basic--Worth the money?


> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:08:59PM -0700, The Matt wrote:
> > With the veritable deluge of mail from Red Hat concerning Red Hat 9
> > today, I was wondering if any one out there can comment on the value of
> > a "Basic" RHN subscription.  Is it worth the $60/year for the "priority"
> > access to errata for a person that rides Rawhide as much as I do?
>
> We use the basic RHN subscription, and I feel it's certainly worth it.
> The biggest thing it buys you is convenience and time.  While I can
certainly
> download updated RPMs from the public FTP server, it is time consuming to
> figure out if I need an update, then apply it, and then wade through all
the
> dependencies that caused the update to fail.  RHN allows me to click a few
> web widgets, and let RHN figure all that stuff out.
>
> One of the most impressive things about RHN is that it will upgrade your
> kernel for you.  I run seven production servers, and have updated the
kernel
> several times using RHN on all of them.  At first, I was scared as hell to
> trust that kind of update to an automated process.  But it's performed
> flawlessly every single time.
>
> Keep in mind that RHN will only update and maintain packages for that
version
> of RHL.  If you're running Rawhide RPMs, roll your own, or just
configure/make
> from source, you're on your own and may not get a lot of value out of it,
> depending on your mix of distro packages and homebrewed packages.  Also,
> sometimes you will need to restart some services, such as when glibc is
> updated.  But you'd need to do that anyway.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> -k
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