[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Dec 8 22:53:24 UTC 2005


Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> Install CentOS4 today, and you will get updates till 2012.
> 
> And you were doing so well until you said that.
> 
> You'll get updates provided CentOS actually still exists in 2012 and 
> assuming you're using an x86 processor as that's the only architecture 
> it supports to date.

I just lost interest in this conversation with you - You obviously know 
nothing about the things you talk about.

bye

> Welcome to the real world where people use stuff that isn't x86 _and yet 
> still need maintainability and seamless upgrade paths_.
> 
> Does CentOS support 15000 packages out of the box?  Nope, didn't think so.
> 
> Debian doesn't get updated too often partly because maintaining a few 
> thousand packages across 10 architectures is a hard problem.
> 



-- 

Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list