[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not a fan of continuously applying zillions of updates. How in the
> world are you supposed to test this stuff?
There's a big difference between a distribution like fedora where
updates are to get new features as fast as possible and one like RHEL
(and thus Centos) where the updates are only to fix things known to be
broken if you don't apply the fix. By the time those updates arrive
they have been tested more than you or I would ever be able to do,
although it is always a good idea to test a single machine first and
keep an old kernel in your grub config so you can select it at bootup if
the new one has a problem.
> And for me, crossing my
> fingers and applying everything Red Hat throws at me is merely passing
> the buck. When things break, my clients don't want to hear that it was
> Red Hat's fault...
If you have RHEL, you have paid for the service for them to fix known
problems. There's a reason they call the fixes 'errata'. It is a lot
of work for them to produce the updates and I don't think they would do
it if they did not consider them necessary.
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Les Mikesell
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