[lug] RHN Basic--Worth the money?

[Nate Duehr]

Or the Enterprise RHN subscriptions with server grouping, multiple logins
with different views, etc?

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Facey, Aaron" <aaron_facey at maxtor.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: RE: [lug] RHN Basic--Worth the money?


> Along the same lines ,,, is anyone using any of the enterprise releases?
> How is the support?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Rafferty [mailto:kirk at fpcc.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> 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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