On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 At he end of the course, of say 3 to 4 years, the fedora is obsolete 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. > good luck > > Your single word "elaborate" isn't much useful in this regards. > > So wait. > waiting > > > > > how ? > > > > Are you following the discussion in PLUG about this issue? > no > > > > >> > >> 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. > > lets not get personal shall we. > > > >> > > > > 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. > again no idea what are we talking about here ... -Satya _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
