Ubuntu 8.10 - Ball dropped

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Also, kickstart support is 100% broken.  Quality has never been job 1
> for Ubuntu.  This is just more of the same downward slide.  Mark
> Shuttlesworth is smoking some good stuff if he thinks that a distro
> with completely broken kickstart support is ready for any enterprise
> environment.
>

True enough. Since I don't need to kickstart anything at home -
install once, update forever - I'm pretty well insulated from that.

At work is another story. Kickstart functionality was (effectively but
not technically) broken on RHEL5. ldap functionality was not working
properly until well after 5.2, and I had difficulty getting Anaconda
to work at all on 5.1. The split of the workstation product into two
streams (Client and Workstation) was counter productive for my
company's needs. Also I had some difficulty with NFS vs HTTP access to
the repositories during kickstart. And, given the ldap problem, I'm
not really impressed with the quality control (ie testing) process
before point releases. ldap support was working at 5.0 and 5.1, but
badly borken in 5.2

I've got it mostly sorted now, but I had to move a lot of stuff out of
post and into a first_boot setup, mostly to get around the ldap
problem. I haven't tried 5.3 yet.

Just goes to prove, there is no perfect distro, and just when you have
a fine-tuned, repeatable process, the rules of the game change, and
it's startover time.

Thank goodness I'm well out of the reinstall game on my home system.


-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.