On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, at 9:51pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In practice, so-called "stable" releases of certain software may be no > better, but you're never going to convince a non-technical manager type > that it's a good idea to use something which is not considered > production-quality by the people who are developing it...
Or even a technical type. For all of Red Hat Software's faults (and they are legion), they do at least understand the concept of configuration and release management. If you tell me a system is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, then right away I know the versions, patches, build options, and everything else about the kernel, C library, C compiler, X11, KDE/GNOME, and a bunch of other things about the system. If you tell me a system is running Debian Sarge, about all that tells me is that it's probably running Linux. :) As an IT professional, I've pretty much reached the conclusion that everything sucks. My job is to figure *how* a given product sucks, and come up with standard ways to work around the suckage. Once I've done all that work, I will often stick with a product I *know* to be inferior, simply because I've already done that work. I know switching to the superior product will still end up with me muttering curses under my breath at some point. So I stick with the devil I know. That's what CM is all about. That's why saying "just use testing/unstable" won't work. Not because it's of quality, but because it's a moving target. Until Debian zealots get that through their amazingly thick skulls, Debian will make no inroads with me on a professional level. And I know I speak for many other professional geeks as well. Debian also makes no inroads with me on a hobby level, either, but I suspect that's just because it knows my opinion and so refuses to ever work properly. ;-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
