James Rayner wrote: > @ PHP5.1 > To most people a point release like that is a minor upgrade. Its not > the Arch Dev's fault it was broken. > > @ Communication. > Arch has a homepage which communicates upcoming things like hwdetect and > initrd. > > @ Arch in production > Arch wasnt ever made for production, and i wouldnt use it for that. I > wouldnt even reccomend it for that. Arch is for the sorta person who > would want to get that PHP5.1 update straight away, without testing, > and then downgrade if needed.
Good software doesn't have all its uses in life cut out for it by the author. infact, good software/products often prevail where the original author didn't even dream of it. Arch is the ONLY linux i use these days... i just can't stand all the other bloat... for me, its *production ready*, its sad if you don't see it like that. I've even recently deployed Arch for a telecom company using it for Kannel/sms/wap stuff, and the guy there (a solaris guy by origin), just keeps telling me how he loves it (imagine if he sees this thread ;) ). I have at least than 4 production border gateways (NAT/Firewall, bandwidth traffic control, transparent proxy) running Arch, and i'm in the process of packing an autoinstaller for them so its even simpler to set up a remote client. My point is, originally, Arch _may_ not have been designed for production use, but the reality is that many of us SWEAR by arch, other distros just have too much cruft. Really... Arch is production ready, lets just keep it at the back of our minds. > > If you're unsure about a major release on a production system that > cant handle a break, wait a few days, let others test it, thats what I > did back when udev was still a finicky thing with problems with every > second release. > > Arch has a good setup now, with good communication. There is a > homepage, there is the forums, there is the mailing list. All have > info about upcoming major changes. And I think theres also the > newsletter. Oh and the Dev blog too. Agreed, its waaay better these days really, just a weetle weetle bit more and well be weady :) Essien > > James Rayner > > -- > iphitus - archck maintainer, arch trusted user. > Home:iphitus.loudas.com > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
