Currently, Red Hat's business model is to charge people for updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat is an awesome company, because they release _all_ of their software under the GPL. Because of this, people can redistribute Red Hat's updated rpms--they just have to remove Red Hat's trademarks first to avoid making their unsupported distributes appear official. Two such repackagers of RHEL are:
CentOS: http://www.centos.org/projects/centos White Box Linux: http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ Both provide yum repositories, which I have grown fond of. Remember that the goal of RHEL is to be "stable" in the Debian sense, i.e. only provide security updates and avoid moving target packages. If you want cutting edge, than Fedora really is the Red Hat way to go. Richard Esplin On Monday 15 November 2004 15:54, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:14 -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > I just started using the Red Hat Enterprise 3.2 version of Linux, and > > noticed that the rpms for this version on rpmfind.net aren't very recent, > > and some of the earlier versions of applications are incompatible with > > things that I wrote on earlier versions. Is this distro not very well > > supported (with recent rpms), or am I looking in the wrong places? Will > > I need to download and compile applications from source? > > rpmfind has kinda fallen behind the times, especially on the RH family > of distros. I don't know anyone that uses it anymore. Unfortunately, > RHES is basically RH9 and most of the community has moved on from that > too. Sorry, dude, you've got a hard slog ahead. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
