Alternatives to Red Hat Update

Alternatives to Red Hat Update

PS Whilst on the subject of updates, I've found that rpm 4.1.1 from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.1.1 seems to cure the "rpm locks up" problem I and others have been having with RedHat 8.0

That lock up was what pushed me away from Red Hat... I'd been a Red Hat user after switching from Slackware several years ago, back during RedHat 5.2 or some such. Installing 8.0, though, made me think it was time to try out Debian (which I'd been eyeing for months). Part of the problem was Gnome 2.0, which I admit to not being fond of. (Reduced configuration options is great for simplifying things, unless it happens to be your sacred ox that gets gored. A couple of my sacred oxen were gored.) Already missing Gnome 1.4, I was inclined to be negative, but I've adapted to those sorts of changes in the past. But being inable to apply the Red Hat updates... that was a bit much.

It's nice that they finally fixed this, but it is many months too late for me. Really, we understand when a release has bugs, but Red Hat rather screwed up by putting out a major release where the *package manager* had a serious bug that hampered those who would apply security patches!

-Rob