We use Redhat Enterprise 3.0 at work. Because I subscribed to Redhat at home, I was given free access from Redhat to download 3.0 ES when they discontinued the home versions. I would like to be able to keep RE 3.0 ES current with all bug fixes, but cannot justify the personal cost. Is there a way to modify a file so that I can use a different server to keep the software up to date? I notice that Whiteboxlinux is based on the Redhat code. Can I use whatever mechanism they have adopted? I would like the software to be as similar to my work environment as possible. I checked at the office, but the licenses are all used.

Thank you

Ahhhhh - gotta love free software that costs hundreds of pounds per year for security updates

You have a couple of options...

1. Use your companies servers to download the updates, take those home on CD and apply (or scp them home - whatever)

2. Use a different up2date source. I'm not 100% sure that whitebox linux will work well with RPM versioning though. For example, if you have RHEL3 ES UPDATE3 the version numbers of some RPMS (due to updates, etc.) will be different than for RHEL3 ES UPDATE2. The last I looked, whitebox had successfully caught up with UPDATE2.

3. Go for Fedora at home and accept that there may be slight differences, but you'll probably get a better desktop experience out of the deal.

4. Talk to Red Hat about a home licence similar to what Microsoft offers to their Enterprise users - i.e. you get to have the software at home, fully working (including updates) for a negligible fee to cover media. They'll probably just say no, but it's worth a try

HTH

You can install yup on RHEL3 just google it you will get all info it is almost free

Take a look at CentOS. It is far superior to White Box. You could always download the srpms and build your own updates.