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RHN
By Jesse Morgan | October 24, 2005
So I had my first head-butting with Redhat Enterprise today.
I thought I’d give it the run through, try to do things the RH way while building my command center. Since Dell gives away Advanced Server disc packs like candy, there were a few laying around.
Went through the trouble of installing RHEL AS v3 only to find out that it not only doesn’t come with yum, but to register properly with their up2date network, it’ll cost $1500. Yes, $1500 to update this newly installed RH box.
Holy crap. I only have one thing to say to that….
I have 34 minutes before the debian netinstall disc finished downloading.
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October 27th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
Version 3 is pretty old. Or you could always go with CentOS http://www.centos.org/ which takes the RedHat GPL code and recompiles it. Same thing that RHEL is without the price tag. All the third party software written only for RHEL and SuSE runs just fine on CentOS because it is RHEL. It is what I use on my servers. Then again I have been a slave to RH since version 5.2