Greetings, You have compelled me to write a long-winded reply.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:53 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> wrote: > > i am for Fedora for activities like these , its always a step ahead of RHEL Indeed. In fact many steps ahead. At he end of the course, of say 3 to 4 years, the fedora is obsolete and the production systems they are faced with will be rather more mature aka ancient. > and yes students have an opportunity to contribute actively to the fedora > community rather than closed RHEL platform wrt to community participation , > experimentation etc.... over and above all of it learnings . I mentioned Centos. Last I heard of, Nobody stopped anybody from contributing to Centos or SL. >> > > issues like ? Who will administer?, Who will patch? Who will fight to find the new repos that spring up everyday? Who will keep track of the the unsupportedstuff: for example, somewhere fedora changed the device naming for IDE from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx >> I am toying around with the idea of different support consortiums for >> such FOSS efforts: BFSI, Manufacturing, Academics (including PHBs) >> etc. >> > > elaborate Will take a about a week or more as I am co-ordinating with other disparate sector people (about half a dozen) too and taking their inputs. Your single word "elaborate" isn't much useful in this regards. So wait. > > how ? > Are you following the discussion in PLUG about this issue? > >> >> But my focus is a resilient Support system for India specific environment. >> > > explain resilience wrt to support specific to .in , is it something like > pizza delivery support guy on the door in 30 minutes ? > I am afraid you are embroiled in small few server setups which are nicely shutoff at 1900hrs at the lab closure and people live happily ever after. and not setups like datacenteres which operate on SLA like 99.9% etc. Think HA (High availability A some PHB VP shouting "I wanted it day before yesterday") .Think of Your ATM backend. Think core banking. Think your MMSand SMS engines. not some teenagers clobbering keyboards. Apologies for the harsh words. > >> > > Price points and support offerings ? and why should somebody come to me/us > than roll her/his or go to Centos community ? > If you have come this far, you would know where you and I stand. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
