2002-06-10 12:45 People want things as ''safe'' as possible. Friend of mine owns a small business and wants to use Linux as a mail server. So he goes out and buys ... Red Hat. Why? Because in his view it's the ''best'' distribution out there. Seems that it is the *only one* he has ever heard of. Can you imagine this group of IT decision makers using/testing an ''unstable'' or ''pre-release'' version of Debian??
A n d r e >>> Marcel Hicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10.06.2002 12.22 Uhr >>> --On Montag, 10. Juni 2002 12:04 +0200 vdongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:35:08AM +0100, Thomas Thurman wrote: >> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Marcel Hicking wrote: >> > > So I fear that all godd arguments for Debian will >> > > be simple overun by the faster and seemingly more reliable relase >> cycle >> > > of other distribs. Sight. > I had the big "unstable" name problem here, ppl translated it to "not - > stable (like atoms can be unstable and blow up any minute)". The mayor > fix is calling it either "sid" or in development. > Our servers here run on sid, since potato is much too old for us. > If it wasn't for my advocacy and for the lack of apt in other dists, we > would be running redhat now. > When we do a dist-upgrade, we do it on a non-critical machine first.... > That seems to help, although we haven't had a mayor problem with > unstable packages in months. Uhm, well, the server guys are not complaining about names... They base their decissions mostly on technical data ;-) And in unstable, although from personal experience I can say that it's usually more stable than most released "commercial" distributions, the problem is that even the base system still keeps changing a lot. Too much for a staged upgrade structure (apt-get upgrade a test machine first than upgrade the local ftp server and upgrade the live systems from this) and much too much to give the _impression_ of a "ready for production" dist. Cheers, Marcel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
