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On 2003年7月10日 kmhryhpdblyx@spammotel.com wrote: > Will they need a Red Hat Network subscription to keep the systems up to > date? I'm concerned that a subscription will either be too expensive or > too complicated for the kids. Would a Debian-based distro with a scheduled > apt-get update/apt-get upgrade be a better choice in this situation? Or > did you have another idea on how to administer all of those machines? You do not need RHN at all ever to keep RHL up to date. That is why there are a whole slew of "Official Red Hat Mirrors". All you need to do is install yum or apt rpm or something similar and those that have internet connections can have the updates automagically installed. I maintain ~20 machines using yum. For this project you could Just point them at a repository and let them pretty much take care of themselves. If the families do not have an internet connection then the updates are not that important. You might also want to think about installing gShield, Shorewall or something like that on them to have it automagically come up and firewall all connections from the utside for these machines. If someone really wants to be able to connect from the outside they will need to reconfigure but presumably that would be the exception. -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@rogueind.com My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@rogueind.com _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug