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Another feather in Red Hat's cap is Red Hat Network (RHN). Although they've switched to making you answer a survey every month or two for their free single-machine accounts, it's a nice feature to have.
A daemon on your 'puter checks in with RH every few hours to see if there are updates, bug fixes, etc. available. If there are, you get an email explaining the problem and the fix. If you decide you need it, open up the GUI tool, click through the prompts, and your system is up-to-date. You don't even need to reboot unless there's a kernel update.
You can also update your system by logging in to the website and choosing which patches to apply. The next time your 'puter checks in, it applies the patch. Of course, for just a desktop system, this won't be a huge issue (except for kernel patches to fix security holes), but for someone like me on the other side of the world and no one at home who knows enough about my server to maintain it, it's been wonderful.
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