RE: updates not over the web

[Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC <Steve Binyon kirtland af mil>]

Good point, if the boxes where on the internet I would be more concern on
the hacking part but then again if they were on the internet, then up2date
would be used.  Downloading patches from the net should always be available.
In my case, the systems are not on the internet (and probably never will be)
and therefore getting updates are obtained via other methods - downloading
the patches one by one - and then transfered via CD to the systems, much in
the same line that krud is doing, so krud may have a good deal for us gaint
corporate users :).  Another solution would to replace my NT junk with RH
and then I can have up2date put the patches in a seperate directory that can
then be distributed to the non-internet systems via CD.  

smbinyon

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodolfo J. Paiz [mailto:rpaiz indahaus com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:14 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: RE: updates not over the web


At 2/1/2002 03:27 PM +0000, you wrote:
>Yea, I agree it would be an expense on RH side to supply CDs, but it may
>pass as a paid service for us big corporate users (but I'm still thinking
on
>that one).  The krud site is interesting, seems they are doing the same
>thing that I'm doing.

If you're a big corporate user, you have Internet bandwidth somehow. I'll 
bet that if you run the numbers of what it would take in money and time to 
get a CD to you outside the USA to most places, it's cheaper and quicker to 
get it off the Internet.

Time is just as important as money. Would you like to get a box hacked 
because "the monthly update CD hasn't arrived yet"?


-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz indahaus com



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