[Gllug] just preaching to the converted !

[Steve Nelson]

On 10/22/05, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:

> (*) What would happen to you as a systems guy if you spent weeks getting
> Application A shoehorned into running on Your Linux Distro Of Choice
> with maybe incompatible glibc or threads libraries, just because you
> like YLDOC and run it on your home PC?  P45 time methinks.

Indeed, which is why we so often run release-1 systems; we know they
work, we know what they look like and how they behave, and we know
they're not likely to get The Latest Thing (TM) injected into them at
short notice.  On this point, Debian Stable is God's gift to techies,
and is what Redhat got absolutely right with the slow release cycle
methodology of RHEL.  Its essential to be able to reassure Mr
$commericial_application that the platform on which his system will
run is tried, tested, stable, and not likely to change.

How long's 2.6 been out? This Christmas(ish) I'll be rolling out my
first production 2.6 system.

S.
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