Subject: Re: Is there a Red Hat "up2date" equivalent???
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 23:07:19 AKST
Well, Gentoo has it's 'emerge' tool. . So far, I have found it to work
quite well. Still some issues, like recently it's been having trouble
updating vim, but overall it's been painless.
I'm sure Greg will have a few words to say about Debian as well.. :P
Justin
Scott Johnson wrote:
> Now that RH is going paid only, I'm looking for a new distro.
>
> The biggest reason I love(d) RH to begin with was it's "up2date" service
> that I could set as a daily cron job to make sure my system automatically
> downloaded and installed any applicable patches for my box.
>
> Question: Is there any alternative/equivalent service on a different
> distro that is free? I'm trying not to turn the thread into a distro
> war, hence this specific question.
>
> TIA!
>
> Scott
>
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