FC2 - Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool says 285 updatesareavailable

Jef Spaleta jspaleta at princeton.edu
Fri Feb 13 17:13:16 UTC 2004


Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Why is the thing called Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool 
> anyway?
> People just recently explained to me that it has nothing to do with RHN,
> although the context menu wants to take me there.

why is gaim called gaim if it can do more than just be an aim clone?

historical anomaly... the rhn notification tool use to be for rhn only
the name as not been updated to reflect its enhanced abilities.
up2date and rhn-applet have both gain the ability to look at yum repos
ala fc1...

-jef 





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