A call for recomendations and helpful some advice

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:37:18AM -0500, Cole Tuininga wrote:

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> Having not used up2date in a long time (since 6.2 was pretty new), I
> have a question.  Does it require you register your machine like the
> graphical rhn stuff from Redhat 8.0 does?  I really like the look and
> feel of RH 8, etc, but I've resorted to red carpet to do updates, cause
> I didn't want to have to "sign up" to get updates.  
> 
> I guess I've gotten too used to apt-get...

  I haven't really used up2date to it's full potential, but if you are
looking for an update tool that doesn't require any kind of registration,
go grab apt4rpm (the package is actually just called apt) from freshrpms.net.
The default sources.list points to freshrpms' own repository and includes all
of the official updates from Red Hat (albeit, usually a day or two behind when
the errata are released).

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