site_removal

[Chong Yu Meng]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:28 -0400, David Bandel wrote:
> Meanwhile, I could post
> more stuff, but have no idea how much interest there is in some of the
> things I've been working on (like IPv6, madwifi stuff, etc.). 

I have a somewhat different problem. I thought I'd have time to
experiment and contribute this year, but things have just gotten busier
for me, and my Linux journey is now taking me to different places. The
technical aspects are not so critical for me now so much as the business
and strategy issues. For example, when does it make sense for a SMB to
make a switch from Linux to Microsoft (this question, I discovered, is a
lot more complex than just the anti-piracy mechanisms in Vista or the
evils of proprietary software)? How much to switch over and what to
leave well enough alone (for legacy and political reasons)? What are the
real security issues, etc.?

I'm not even sure if this is the correct forum to be discussing these
things, much less posting about it on the SxS, because of its
inflammatory nature among other things (notwithstanding the hoakum
stuff, which actually gets in the way of a meaningful debate). Maybe it
is an indication of the pace of progress in technology.

The distros have become really easy to install and setup, so the basic
stuff has gotten quite easy, almost trivial. This is great for Linux on
a technical level, and I guess it was inevitable. But it raises a whole
new set of issues that individual administrators need to deal with, if
they want to do their job responsibly, not just adequately. 

Maybe instead of deprecating the site, we could decide to re-define it
and what can go on it?

-- 
Pascal Chong 
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