Um, WTF? Red Hat has used YUM for ages, and it works perfectly on RHEL 4.4. [ot]That's what CentOS is, B, just a re-package of RHEL with the RH logos removed.[/ot] My servers use yum exclusively, and they have zero issues getting regular updates and installing new software. From the article: Yeah. What do the beta repositories have anything to do with the quality of YUM? Up2date has been pretty obsolete for a while now, and YUM has been some of the best-in-class for a while. I'm no Red Had apologist (support Reiser3, guys! Come on now!), but bashing YUM as a package manager because the mirrors online for the beta packages were overloaded is just asinine. Apparently, eWeek editors are UNIX-challenged. That or this article is intended as FUD...