On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thing yesterday morning: urgent IM message from Suresh > Ramasubramanian (hoster of this mailing list): > > Mailman is down, can you help?
<..snip snip> > > I don't believe them. In the past 6 months Ubuntu has issues 80 new > security advisories. For those 80 advisories, they have issued no less > than SEVEN regressions (a regression is a patch to fix a broken patch). > A near-10% regression rate sends only one message to me -- we can't be > bothered with doing any quality control before we release packages. > > Before Ubuntu came onto the scene, I didn't even /know/ what a > regression was. Today it's a common word in my lexicon, because of > Ubuntu's pathetic testing and quality control process (or lack of > process, more likely). An operating system vendor who issues a package > with a syntax error (so that the package doesn't even start up, leave > alone do something wrong), is a pure crap snake oil vendor in my book. > Recently they managed to break their glibc as well - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673 >From the bug report, it looks really ugly. > So, the question: will I trust Ubuntu on an Internet-connected system? > Nah. > > Will I trust Ubuntu on a server? Er, please excuse me while I finishing > laughing hysterically! > > Use Debian or CentOS or any of those reasonably tested other > distributions for your boxes, and when someone asks you to use Ubuntu, > in the immortal words of Fancy Raygun, ``Just Say No!''. > Desktop users are affected as well. http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/08/22/still-learning-what-long-term-support-means/ (Follow up: http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/08/24/more-on-qa-ubuntu-trust-etc/) -sdg- -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Linux-india-general mailing list Linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general
