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[Collins Richey]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:

[ snipped a lot - re 6 month test cycle ]

> That may be part of the problem, however Fedora also has a 6 month
> release cycle and isn't similarly afflicted.

Hmmm. Are you saying that Fedora survives your stress tests? Also, I
certainly wouldn't think that Fedora meets the criteria for an
enterprise release.

[ rest snipped ]

I don't really have a dog in this fight, since I don't/won't run
*buntu at home and don't/can't run it for the most part at work. I
have to agree with both of you.

1. Ubuntu (based on 2+ years of home use) has a lousy concept of
testing. They start with a mishmash of Debian unstable and
experimental that is usually too broken to be of much use in the early
part of a test cycle.

2. It would be a really good idea if at least some of the principles
of your proprietary stress test could be published so that others
might confirm your claims.

3. None of the supposedly enterprise releases or even Debian stable
suit my tastes, even for a critical server environment. RHEL is pretty
reliable on the whole, but at some point during the use cycle you wind
up needing some newer parts that the vendor is not willing to supply.
I'm pretty sure that all the others (including Ubuntu server) are in a
similar boat. In terms of reliability, we could be running RHEL4
forever with no complaints. if only RH (in this case) would make
available newer releases of some things ( PHP and Python, for
example). I see absolutely no benefit to the requirement to replace
everything in your environment just to run a later version of one or
two packges. And, of course, by the time a package has been approved
for the latest and greatest release, it's already missing some needed
features. CentOS, OTH, does a fair job of bridging the gap by
supporting newer piece parts on the same base release.

Ah well, just a variant of "there is no perfect distro".

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