On 09/04/2011 11:07 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > In all honesty, Yury, if a user of RHEL, Scientific Linux or CentOS > needs to constantly install the latest "whizzo" version of Firefox or > Thunderbird that Mozilla has just pushed out, then the wrong OS > distribution is being used. Hi Alan,
Without knowing what and why one is keeping current with Mozilla.org's stuff, you can not make this kind of evaluation. I do think you may be being a bit of a purist. For instance. My office servers are set up to emulate CentOS & SL servers I have in the field. This is the reason for CentOS and SL. (I would rather have FC 15, as it is not out of date. I am relegated to run it in a virtual machine to support my few FC customers.) Now the majority of my work (income) comes from that terrible operating system whose name we shall not mention. And they are all on the latest versions of Mozilla.org's stuff. So, in order to make a living, I have to be see what they see. It also gives me the added benefit of not running a defunct version of Mozilla.org's stuff full of all kinds of security exploits that "someone" is not is the "mood" to back port. I.T. is a series of compromises. You can *never* get everything exactly the way you want. (When I am king, I will demand that Wine work perfectly with all programs written for that operating system we shall not mention, starting with printing my envelopes, not defaulting to A4 paper all the time, and not overlapping letters on the printed page.) But, you can get real close! I hope my disagreement on this tiny issue does not come across as not appreciating your help. I appreciate it very much. -T p.s. I have had zero problems with the 32 bit binaries. I have only had the plug-in problem with the 64 bit version. And, the code in the binaries is *restricted* to a single directory which I can remove at any time and do not have to go chasing all over my hard drive looking for dependencies that conflict with this that and the other thing. I currently have one of my office servers down as I goofed the removal of Fedora People's (Leigh's) Firefox4. Never, never would have happened with the binaries. (Okay, would not have happened if I had not done something stupid out of frustration with the broken dependencies either. Into everyone's a little humility must fall.) _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
