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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:11 +0900, pclouds wrote:
> Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their users?

Red Hat has you subscribe to RHN, which sends you errata based on your
installed configuration.  When you add packages via up2date, Red Hat
knows.

Others just use mailing lists, as far as I know, though I have limited
experience with other distributions.  (Slackware, LFS, and RH are it)

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