On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:40 -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is cool to use the latest and greatest tools, but frankly this rapid > > development of all things Linux is a huge hindrance to Linux adoption. > > It's a hard one to find a balanced solution for, in a corporate environment. > > Seriously. Why do those crazy developers keep fixing bugs and adding > useful new features all the time? Why can't they just leave things > the way they are!
Bug fix good. Feature bad. Simple. The biggest reason most people don't understand enterprise distros is they're thinking like programmers, not sysadmins. It might be easy for you to maintain 2 or 3 machines. There's a world of difference between that and achieving five nines (99.999% uptime) on 200 machines. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
