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well? would you subscribe to RHN for your needs or at the very least recommend it to your manager/boss for your company's/workplace's computational needs and support?
I personally believe it's utterly pointless for personal apps since within a few weeks the average newbie can (and does) acquire enough linux skills to run his/her own box...
madcompnerd
04-25-2003, 12:50 PM
It is great if you don't pay for it. I don't think it's worth $5 a month for all the more I'd use it.
It does make installing a new kernel a piece of cake.
shakin
04-25-2003, 01:03 PM
I use RHN for 4 servers at work, but not on my work laptop. 2 of the servers are identically load balanced web servers, so it's great to be able to update both in a few seconds. Another server is the dev server where I test to make sure the updates work properly.
IMO, it's one of the things that makes Red Hat the best option for enterprise deployment.
Kaligraphic
04-25-2003, 08:45 PM
No. My laptop runs Debian.
chatins
04-25-2003, 10:13 PM
I subscribe to RHN. I orginally did it because i didn't know how to delete the red x for "not updated"
Now i have come to like it because i can log on and get some great info, isos, updates, etc.
I don't mind supporting Redhat in the least with $.
I would like to, but unfortunately I can't. I would just LOVE it if it could be free.
i am just a end user in my home, i see no need to pay for updates, as a matter of fact i abandoned Redhat since their distro phisically renames disk partitions which screws up other distros i have installed, this actually helped me to explore other distros even more such as those less popular distros like AltLinux, PLD, Vector, EvilEntity, etc...etc...
but my main distro and alltime favorite is good ol' trusty Slackware :)
LrngTheHardWay
04-26-2003, 01:22 AM
Both work and home, and have enterprise-level subscriptions for my home machines.
As has been said, it's a breeze to update multiple machines. For me, it's more than worth it.
bosox79
04-26-2003, 01:43 AM
I am sure the RHN is great for a business enviorment where quite a few servers & clients need to be updated at ounce but for a home system I do not think it is needed for a home users work station I update my RH 9 box using yum it is a great command line tool to use to update my boxes I am also able to access all of the freshrpms.net repositories along with the yum repositories that included the official RH updates:D check out yum at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
rbrimhall
04-26-2003, 02:12 AM
I use apt with synaptic and its great! Don't really need the RHN here...
CMonster
04-26-2003, 02:19 AM
You need a "NO!" choice in your poll.
NO! I don't believe in subscriptions - I believe in ownership!
NecroLin
04-26-2003, 09:36 AM
I subscibed to the free (trial) version of RHN just for updates of my system. It's pretty good, they let you know when there's a security update & you can then run up2date to get your security patches. This is all you really need at home, at least all I really need. Overall it's a great service.
Originally posted by CMonster
You need a "NO!" choice in your poll.
NO! I don't believe in subscriptions - I believe in ownership!
that'll be the waste of money option... (my choice by the way)
Originally posted by chatins
I subscribe to RHN. I orginally did it because i didn't know how to delete the red x for "not updated"
Now i have come to like it because i can log on and get some great info, isos, updates, etc.
I don't mind supporting Redhat in the least with $.
I agree that 60$/year is peanuts especially for a work environment where you don't have the time luxury. but the whole point of this thread/poll is to try to figure out the problems that can arise due to compatibility issues (see Okie's post).
I personally do not believe I need RHN at home. doing quite well without it. It all boils down to work requirements where a couple of BeoWulf clusters and a couple of dozen workstations have to be maintained.