On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:13 -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote: >> I can kind of see where you RHEL defenders are coming from for servers >> (kind of), but try RHEL Workstation, where you do want extra packages >> like git or a more recent python and it is teh suX0rz. I say kind of >> for servers because you might want to run subversion 1.5 because it >> finally does merges somewhat correctly, or set up django, or ruby on >> rails, and wo be unto you if so. You start to wonder really quickly >> what it is you are paying for. >> >> Ubuntu, even up through the latest 9.10 has been very good to me. > > If Ubuntu 9.10 can meet your needs, you shouldn't have been using RHEL.
I totally agree with you there! Your other mail about system admins vs. programmers is so very true. I worked at HP for a long time (and used hpux even!) and though our admins were generally very understanding of engineers, they also displayed a lot of what you describe. I think the tension between admins and engineers is generally a good thing. > A workstation isn't a desktop. As a general rule of thumb, if the user > of a system has the root password, that isn't a workstation. So far I've never worked at a company where IT wanted that much control (or responsibility) over engineering workstations. I have always had root access on the machine on my desk. > (BTW, Subversion? You're complaining about old software and you're still > using Subversion?!) lol! I'm trying, but hardware engineers have some things in common with system administrators. Bryan -------------------- 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
