On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:57:54PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:57:23PM +0200, Miguel A. Ar?valo wrote: > > > El mar, 28-09-2004 a las 11:50 +0200, Sergio Talens-Oliag escribi?: > > > > El Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:35:40AM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill va escriure: > > > Clearly, not everyone agrees with you. People like regular time-based > > releases. People (especially companies) like *predictable* release > > cycles. The fact Debian can't say when the next release will be is > > worse than the fact that it might be 3+ years away in the eyes of many > > people. > > Actually, I disagree. Companies like *stable* OS', hardware, and > support contracts that ensure liability. Most of the ones I've worked > at didn't care about release schedules for their internal operations > work. I'm basing that statement almost entirely off of statesments by Bdale (CTO of Linux for HP) in describing resistance to his push for Debian within HP. I've heard him say on a couple of occassions that the predictability, rather than the frequency, was a killer for Debian in the circle he runs in. I'm absolutely willing to admit that YMMV -- and probably will. > Big companies care about stability in their operations, not the latest > and greatest Gnome, in fact most of them wouldn't even use any > graphical X installation. I'm not at all surprised that what people want out of a desktop Linux distribution is different than what they want out of a server distributions. I suspect that stuck with 4 year old GUI libraries and web browsers interferes with being able to get work done more than being stuck on 3 year old Solaris on which you running a custom built application -- for example. But at the end of the day, I'm simply more interested in desktop Linux for me and the people I know than I am in high performance server Linux for big companies. The people I know very much appreciate seeing an improvement in their OS on a regular basis and without sacrificing stability. :) The point of course, was that someobody wants these things, not that Fortune 500 companies do. Regarsd, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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