[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Joel Bernstein]

On 7 Jul 2009, at 13:18, - Tethys wrote:
> Your view of enterprise distributions as a collection of hacky
> backports is also somewhat at odds with reality. But I doubt I'll
> be able to convince you of that.

TBH the number of people who I respect and who disagree with me on  
this is making me reassess my position.

I'd appreciate feedback from RHEL licensees who've reported bugs to RH  
support and had them resolved by backporting upstream fixes. In my  
eyes this is a fragile process. I distrust it. Richard Jones argued  
eloquently (if perhaps with bias) that RH have ISO-standard quality  
control processes and provide a serious and stable bed to deploy in  
production. I'm interested to know how others view this process as  
consumers of it.

I think it would be interesting too to know whether RHEL-admins find  
that they / their developers are often requesting packages which  
aren't distributed by RH. Out of interest, if you download material  
from EPEL, do RH continue to support the machine?

/joel
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