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Is the Update service worth the 60 Dollars?

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Bazoukas:
As i said man this feature is OPTIONAL!

 A user or network Admin can do the Updates by himself if he wants to and still be up to date.

  If you choose not to pay the entiltment they dont cut you short from packages. They still give them. My guess is that they charge the entiltment fee because the traffic on their servers are heavy, since the updates for each PC may be 1gig+.
  And again. Its a feature that is very automated. You just click, and all updates are downloades to your PC and you dont have to reboot.

  Coming to your example now.
  I dont think MS offers free upgrades to their kernel like RH in particular does. I assume you understand what a kernel update means.  

  i dont think MS offers free improved versions of ISS like RH in particular does with Apache and Samba.

 So if you do the math. It all adds up and basicaly by using RH or any other Linux flavor, cost of ownership drops big time compared to MS.


  You Linux veterans correct me if am wrong with all this.

voidmain:
You are missing everything. You do *not* have to pay for RedHat or any updates. Go to their web site and download all you want. I've been running RedHat since version 1.0 and never ever had to pay for updates. I did purchase a boxed set of RedHat 6.1 when it came out because it was more convenient than downloading at the time.

If you want to get phone support from RedHat or use RedHat's automated update (RedHat Network) then they will charge you, but if you are like me and do not need telephone support and do not want your system "automatically" updated it won't cost you a penny.

Now there are other methods to automatically update your system but there is absolutely no way I would allow automatic updates in a production environment without first fully testing the update myself then rolling out the update using my own methods.

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Bazoukas:
My guess VoidMan is that

a) he cant read English very well.

b) he just asks question up on question, when he already has recieved his answer, just to troll around.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:
My guess VoidMan is that

a) he cant read English very well.

b) he just asks question up on question, when he already has recieved his answer, just to troll around.
--- End quote ---


I know, but he triggers an involuntary twitch in my typing fingers (which are limited to one hand at the moment).

www.unixsucks.com:
You are all so lame that even can not live with the facts when there is something which does not fall into places of "free everything".
I specifically told you about desktop people, John Does which does not have knowledge of any service pack installations.
Ok, let me do it second time so you would get it.
I specifically told you about desktop people, John Does which does not have knowledge of any service pack installations.
Do I need to do it third time?

And please bazoukas if you don't know what you are talking about then just shut up. Windows does not provide kernel updates? You also asking me wether I know what is kernel. Yes, Microsoft does provide kernel updates. Surprised? Live and learn.

Now back to my question, how exactl John Doe who does not know what FTP is and how to install service packs would do it without paying additional money to RedHat or VoidMan?
And on another note, why update is so HUGE?
Can I just install hotfixes? I guess I can but they would be scattered through 40 different websites, one for ssh, another one for bind, another one for Apache, another one for PHP. How convinient is Microsoft, everything in one place and automatcially detected as well.

[ August 27, 2002: Message edited by: http://www.unixsucks.com ]

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