[Yum] newbie

[Steve Ingraham]

Thanks everyone in replying to my inquiry about YUM and our RedHat AS 3
system.  I appreciate all the posts.  I will talk with the powers that
be in our organization about the up2date issue.

Steve Ingraham
Director of Information Services
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
singraham at okcca.net
405 522-5343


-----Original Message-----
From: yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu
[mailto:yum-bounces at lists.dulug.duke.edu] On Behalf Of Jos Vos
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:35 AM
To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
Subject: Re: [Yum] newbie

On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 06:51:13AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> There are "Rebuild Projects" available that take the source provided
by
> the upstream provider and rebuild RPMS that you can use.
> 
> They do have free updates and have software with the same version
> numbers as the upstream provider ... however, they do not have paid 4
> hour or next day support, etc.

Small correction: some providers of free rebuilds (like we at X/OS do
for our X/OS Linux) *do* offer support with a predefined response time
(and tuned to the needs of the customer) for their RHEL-rebuild product.
That support is completely independent from Red Hat, of course.

> The "Rebuild Projects" provide quality software ... but if you need
> official paid support or if you need an officially supported OS for
3rd
> Party Software then your only real option is to stay with RHEL or hire
> someone to maintain your servers.

Same comment, except that some 3rd party sofware vendors indeed might
require that you have "the real thing" (RHEL) with a RH support
contract.

-- 
--    Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl>
--    X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV   |   Phone: +31 20 6938364
--    Amsterdam, The Netherlands        |     Fax: +31 20 6948204
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