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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:42:35AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote |
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> The official release is an indication of the life of a distribution |
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> or package. Look at one of Keith Packard's reasons for leaving |
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> Xfree86 (slow release cycle), or Gnome's recent push to speed their |
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> release cycle. |
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One, of several, reason I left Windows in 2001 was... |
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1995 Windows95 |
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1996 Windows95 OSr2 |
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1998 Windows98 |
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1999 Windows98SE |
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2000 Windows ME and Windows2000 |
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2001 WindowsXP |
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..and I believed MS when they said Vista was "real soon now"<g>. |
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I don't use linux to install linux, I use linux as a tool to do email, |
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spreadsheets, web surfing, etc. And I've got nothing on businesses. |
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They don't want their high-paid admins constantly spending their time |
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installing "the latest and greatest". Businesses want to "set it and |
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forget it". A few data points... |
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in the leadup to Y2K, there were a lot of mainframe/mini programs |
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replaced that had been running unmodified for 10 or 20 years |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/ |
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tells about a university where a wall was built that happened to |
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imprison a server. It kept happily chugging away, and it wasn't until 4 |
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years later, during an audit, that it was finally tracked down, by |
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following the network cabling |
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one of Redhat's selling points with Redhat Enterprise Linux is the |
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promise of a slower release cycle. Timely security patches, yes. But OS |
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version du jour, NO. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I'm not repeating myself |
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I'm an X Window user... I'm an ex-Windows-user |
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