Offline Updates

[Scott Dier]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:06:26PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
>> I know at least one person who wanted this functionality that went ahead 
>> and used Redhat for their (non-network-connected) forensics workstation 
>> instead.  This functionality would have differentiated Ubuntu from 
>> Redhat easily for them.
> 
> I'm confused.  If Red Hat offers this functionality, then it would not
> differentiate Ubuntu if it also had it.  If Red Hat doesn't, then why would
> he choose it over Ubuntu for this application?
> 

They did not have such functionality anymore (they did at one point) but 
the reason he was more focused on rh or fedora was that most of the 
'security' community writes their 'howto' information based on fedora or 
rh.  If it was easier to pull updates and dependencies with Ubuntu from 
a update CD he was willing to figure out how to make things work with 
Ubuntu.  Its not crazy, the guy is a netbsd bigot for the most part, so 
reworking directions for another linux distribution seems to me to be 
light work compared to trying to get all of the apps he wanted running 
under netbsd. :)

Thanks,

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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>