On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, "Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS)" <slav.pidgorny@anz.com> wrote:
On 13/06/2013 6:31 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
You can't just get a copy of RHEL binaries and run them on all your systems.
Actually, I think you can, but only one system has rights to software updates - which makes it pretty pointless for anything other than a "quick" test on the hardware.
You can pull updates using single channel and distribute to unlimited number of system however you like without violating Red Hat license. There's no such thing as "rights to software updates" that I know of, that must be some other system terminology, IBM mainframe?
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