[plug] RH updates availability?

[Steege, Phil E]

I know this does not answer your question, but I submit it as an option.
Having a 56K modem only for the web, I also disliked the long unreliable
downloads of Redhat updates.
The web link below is to a group, in the US, who provide monthly Redhat
CDROM's with the latest errata, security and file updates for redhat
systems.  I just got their 7.3 update last month.
They call it a KRUD (Kevin's Red Hat Uber Distribution) distribution.  Their
CD's explain everything needed for each monthly update.

I paid $60.00 US dollars ($5 per month) for a one year subscription.  They
charge an additional $5 for Global Priority International shipments.

You may want to investigate it as an option.

It is only for Redhat systems unfortunately, but I could see where someone
with high bandwidth access, could create a company doing the same for other
popular distributions.

http://www.tummy.com/krud/mailorder.html/body/benefits

Cheers,
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at busby.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:28 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: [plug] RH updates availability?



After spending several hours and repeated attempts to download 90MB of
packages for updating installed packages on RH7.3, and finally managing to
complete the download, the updating was aborted by red hat, with an error
message "Free service limited due to high load .... Due to extremely high
traffic, access to Red Hat Network is currently limited to subscription
customers."

Note: this occurred AFTER the packages were downloaded, and the computer was
supposedly installing the more current RPM's, that had been downloaded.

Is this a common occurrence?

Does this mean that RH up2date does not work unless a user has a paid
support contract?

Has anyone got up2date to work, with RH 7.3?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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