** Reply to message from Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:43:24 -0700
> Sure. But when it comes time to upgrade that machine or reinstall for > whatever reason such a complicated setup is a huge pain. I am fighting > just that sort of environment moving out of our old datacenter. Imagine > you have a server compromise and have to shut it down and reinstall. The > downtime will be lengthy as you try to restore/reconfigure all of that > functionality. Yup, back in the day, we got UNIX updates maybe once a year with a patch here and there every blue moon. Linux is moving like really fast now and so is all the software on top. I see your point, shits moving so fast that keeping unique under pinnings makes it easier to deal with. Make sense. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
