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On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:34:44PM +0100, John Cooper wrote:
> Most Linux distros these days are fine for package management. Sometimes
> it is better/safer to re-install and the recent versions of Fedora you
> were basically forced too due to adopting latest software releases.
> However, Red Hat are the market leaders in commercial Linux and anyone
> suggesting their upgrade or package management is second class doesn't
> know what their talking about. Their servers run some of the most
> critical services in the world and this would not be possible with poor
> package management.
That seems to me to be a somewhat fallacious argument: "Lots of
people use <X>, so <this bit of X> must be good." My admittedly
limited experience of the default Red Hat package management (with
up2date) is that it's (still) poor. There are far more persuasive
arguments for businesses to buy and run Red Hat than the package
management being good -- those that make the decision to buy it won't
even care about the package management, but will care deeply about
things like support contracts (from both Red Hat and organisations
like Oracle).
Given that in practice very little of an admin's time is spent with
package management, putting up with poor package management in favour
of a significant set of other benefits would be a good trade-off.
Therefore, I would dispute your original syllogism.
> The fact all Linux distros run pretty much the same software should
> now make people realise the distro you run is more about personal
> taste, rather than stability or security. This is a credit to all
> the open source coders and testers who choose the Linux kernel over
> propriety kernels.
Agreed.
Hugo.
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