On Tuesday 08 September 2009 06:52:28 Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > When it comes to > > huge organisations with inertia, corporate or otherwise, such things > > matter. > > +1 to that. Reliability and stability matter a lot indeed.
If you use a stable distro like RHEL/CentOS 5, which has guaranteed support for 7 years, with no change except bug fixes, you *could* achieve the same effect. On the flip side, that misses a lot of software update. Linux users have choice, either go with some degree of up-to-date stuff e.g. fedoa/ubuntu/suse/mandriva with a nearly yearly release or be on the edge with archlinux(my new home, yay! :) ) or worship stability and use rhel/centos. Choice is great but if all of them are equally useful(or not!), it really does not matter which is the worst case including the other major OS ^_^. Huge organizations should have a test bed to test the update and catch such problems that makes past formal testing by distros. So either way, the end users are not/should not be seeing this kind of bugs. -- Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List