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Im glad to be testing it :) |
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Yes I know about production and testing systems. I have a backup solution |
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already in place, nearly hot-swapable. Ive been programming as a |
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consultant for 9 years. I know what risks I am taking. But I honestly |
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cant stand redhat, and mandrake is just to much bloat. Stable debian is |
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just out of date. Most of my users are rather intelligent people, half of |
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them linux users themselves. They know what I am doing. |
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Gregg |
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> On Saturday 24 August 2002 07:24, Gregg wrote: |
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>> Everyone keeps telling me how brave I am. I have to say, it doesnt |
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>> seem that way to me. |
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> Sure, backup solutions are bought after the first real big crash, |
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> security measures are taken after one billion credit card numbers have |
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> been stolen etc. you get the picture. I have absolutely no idea what |
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> kind of customers you have but I wouldn't want to have my domain hosted |
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> on a system running on gcc 3.1 and all the latest packages. |
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> It's great for me at home but for serious computing it's just not |
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> reliable enough. I don't say it has to crash but I say I don't know |
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> enough working examples and theres no vendor to blame. |
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> Sure you've had no real outage (due to gentoo), many ppl never had |
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> problems with xfs, I lost part of my homedir. On the other hand I never |
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> had problems with reiserfs even when it wasn't in the main kernel |
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> others lost everything. It's all about the risk. |
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> Gcc 3.1 is not as tested as it should be (heck 3.1 is not even the |
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> "real" 3.x release) and some software is behaving strangely especially |
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> with athlon optimizations. Gentoo itself is known to have broken |
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> ebuilds etc. (I've yet to emerge one of those myself so far everything |
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> has worked). |
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> That's why we say brave. It's really great to have someone testing all |
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> this out but I just wouldn't test it on paying customers that don't |
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> know about all this. You do know about "production", "integration" and |
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> "testing" systems? :) |
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> Alex |
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> -- |
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary |
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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> Benjamin Franklin |
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