[lug] Redhat Enterprise Linux

[Joseph McDonald]

> If you want a free OS to last several years on a stable server and have
> someone else do the packaging of the security/bug/errata fixes to the
> software installed, I believe it is time to switch to a new distro.  If
> you don't mind following the security releases, taking the redhat srpms,
> patching them yourself, rebuilding them, etc., then you can continue to
> use Redhat or Suse or any other "consumer" versioned distro.

I wonder if using APT (http://apt.freshrpms.net/) and doing dist-upgrades
would keep a system current. Does anyone know how packaging works behind
the scenes at freshrpms.net?