A call for recomendations and helpful some advice

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:36, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:28, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> > > ... cause I didn't want to have to "sign up" to get updates.
> > 
> >   Why not?
> 
> For my personal machines, I guess I don't really care.  At work (be it
> consulting stuff which I do through Code Energy, or my day job an Pan
> Am) I'm not so keen to do so.
> 
> Besides which, one of the pluses about linux (for me) has always been
> not having to register one's software/system with a company.  
> 
> Additionally, at least with the graphical rhn stuff in RH8.0, you could
> only get one system registered for free.  Any others you had to pay for
> a subscription.  

I realize that you've already written off Mandrake as one of your
possible choices (though I can't really see why, as you can do just as
minimal an install in expert mode with Mandrake as with any other major
distro), but I thought I'd mention that the Mandrake tool "urpmi" does
just what you're looking for - updating unlimited machines without cost
or need to register with anyone - and is both easy to use and easy to
automate. It has all but eliminated dependency hell for most Mandrakers.

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