On 12/15/2011 12:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Here is the fundamental problem from my experience. The stock EL distribution contains many add-on applications that are not up to current stable revision version from the application source author(s).
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For those of us who use EL on workstations (including laptops) because we want the stability of, say, Mac OS X production -- a commercial, supported and debugged system (unlike, say, MS Win workstation, commercial for profit, but both poorly supported and poorly debugged) -- within the open systems model -- the issue is more pressing. We need to stay current with end-user formats and application interoperability, but without the instability of an enthusiast distribution. SL, like that of TUV, has the further significant advantage of professional paid (job, not volunteer) developers and support.
If you want a workstation system with paid developers and support, and that stays "current", then that sounds like the niche Ubuntu tries to occupy.
It does not sound like the mission of SL or TUV's enterprise offerings since they define "stable" in a way that excludes being "current".
Trying to cobble together a "current" system by layering multiple additional repos on top of SL is likely to result in a system that is less stable than the enthusiast distributions that you say you want to avoid.
-- Kevin
