Re: Two new releases

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On 27 Jun 2002, Hunter Matthews wrote:

> As always, we would love to hear from people using current at all (what
> do you want, what do you need, what does it not do...) and especially
> from people who have tried the 1.3 series.


It would be nice to have something as powerful as the Red Hat Satellite
Sever, but free, of course ... *ducks and runs*

To be more specific, what I'm really looking forward to (we're currently
evaluating the 1.3 series) is:
- - adding RPMs dynamically without the need to rebuild the current 
  database (or at least make it way faster).
- - rhnsd support
  This is really a big issue that will definitely take quite some time
  if done properly.
- - some kind of client tracking (honestly, I didn't really have a look
  at this, the real work is done by one of my fellow employees).
  "Simple" things like the patch level of clients etc. ...

Talking about what I'd like to see in current - well, the comparison with
the Red Hat Satellite Server isn't too much off target. Red Hat is doing
a good job here, they just didn't realize (for now) that something like
that may be useful to companies/universities/... with less than 1000 
hosts (500+ doesn't seem to be enough, the salesperson didn't even seem
to understand why I'd want to use their product ...).  They didn't even
realize that 10.000 USD is quite some money, you'd have to spend some
more money which probably renders RHSS unusable for most of us ...

Enough rant - what I'm trying to express: current is definitely taking the
right approach (using RHAT's protocols and their clients and focusing 
on the server), that's why we'll switch from the apt RPM port for the clients
(and possibly autoupdate for the servers) to current - we simply think
that current (while not being much better than apt for now) could
get something more powerful.
Thanks for this great product - we just hope it'll get even better ...


Greetings,

Michael


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