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Re: Enough time wasted, moving on



On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:28:52PM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote:
> I've scores of Debian boxes that are used for revenue generating ventures.
> Downtime is not an option for me nor for who I answer to.  I thought it was
> basically understood in the IT world (whatever os or software you use) that
> you would never *ever* use something called "testing" for production use.

    What? shhh... Don't tell my boss that. 

    We're using a snapshot of Debian Unstable from last June in
    production--at least until the stuff we need is in Stable (i.e. when
    woody goes stable *maybe*). 

> Even though I have heard 1000's of Debian woody users say its great and
> stable, 1000s is a small part of the Debian community, including coders,
> packagers & users.

    I'm not going to say it's "great", but after some patching it's
    working. 


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