On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:44 AM, usafverteran wrote:

> Businesses that use RHEL use their Satellite server and don't use kickstart 
> and other methods that are "free" because they want support.

They serve different functions.  The satellite server is used for centrally 
deploying software updates; kickstart is used for doing automated installations.

> And up2date?  Apparently you aren't very versed with RHEL.  That is an old 
> version.  New versions of RHEL seem to constantly get new commands.

It was up2date up through RHEL4, then they switched to yum, which is a much 
more capable package manager.  It's a bit like Solaris's switch to IPS, except 
that the underlying package format stayed the same and only the management tool 
changed.  Frankly, up2date was a bit of a pain and I wasn't sad to see it go.  
yum is a lot more flexible.

-- 

David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington




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