[PLUG] Anybody using up2date lately?

[Aaron Baer]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 16:08, Mike Witt wrote:
> I haven't been able to use up2date in several days now due
> to the "high load - subscribers only" condition. This is the
> first time I've tried to update in about a month, so maybe
> it's just a bad week?

There were a handful of updates this week including an ssl update so the
servers have been busy.. I got through on my second try, aprox 8:30am. 

> 
> I'm especially interested, because I was planning to *buy*
> a copy of 7.3 rather than get a copy of somebody else's. My
> motives were two-fold: 1) to help support red-hat, 

That's why I bought a copy too even though I also use a downloaded iso's
as well.


> If they are going to be "busy" all the time, that removes
> motive (2) and casts some doubt on (1).

If you want to give some money to RedHat and you don't want to wait in
line for the up2date services you could just sign up for their
subscription services which give you faster bandwidth and download
priorities through up2date.. 

> 
> Opinions?
> 

yes.

A-

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