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Wed May 26 15:14:42 2004
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From: Software Release Team
Subject: Red Hat Network Release Effort Underway Announcement
Good Afternoon,
We are pleased to announce that the Red Hat Network (RHN) release effort is underway. Our implementation of RHN enables workstations and servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, or WS to obtain the latest operating system updates and patches from a local, MIT maintained server. Access to the RHN is limited to personally owned workstations running Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, and MIT owned workstations and servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, or WS, that have an entitlement to use the service.
Once the release effort is complete, Information Services and Technology (IS&T) will publish instructions on how to obtain an entitlement. Entitlements are free to MIT faculty, staff, and students who run Red Hat Enterprise WS on personally owned machines and for MIT owned machines that run Red Hat Enterprise AS, ES, or WS.
The release team plans to test and document the RHN, create a web based front end for entitlement acquisition, and train the Computing Help Desk to support RHN.
This release marks the first IS&T release effort for the Red Hat Network.
Notable Features of Red Hat Network include:
-automatic operating system updates and patches
-rpm dependency checking: ensures that software downloads have the necessary packages to be stable for your configuration
-local package caching: content is cached locally on a server within the MIT network for faster downloads and easier distribution
To learn more about Red Hat Network, please visit the Red Hat Network site:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/ and read the product overview:
http://www.redhat.com/whitepapers/rhn/INS0003US_RHN_collateral.pdf.
The Red Hat Network Release Team will send updates throughout the process. For more information on Red Hat Network and the release effort, see the Red Hat Network release notebook at: http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/rhn.
If you have questions, suggestions, or would like to participate in the release of Red Hat Network, please contact the team via email at rhn-release@mit.edu.
Bill Cattey
Red Hat Network Product Release Coordinator
Software Release Team
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
