Re: Patched sendmail? testing?
* Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) [030304 18:30]:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> >
> > > Testing is almost always a moving target. Stable on the other hand is
> > > not. Ideally, at some point security support for testing would be a
> > > good thing to have. However, I'd hardly call the lack of security
> > > support for it to be "bad allocation of resources".
> >
> > Moving target or not, I think 200+ day uptimes ina 24x7 production
> > environment say something about teh :stability" of the testing release.
>
> Stability isn't just a matter of uptime.
In the MS Windows world, it is. There, all too often a process will
cause the entire machine to lock up requiring a reboot, and losing your
"uptime". In the *nix world, you're often lucky enough to be able to
kill the specific process that's hung up and not have to reboot the
machine.
I use Windows every day and I *wish* that the little "End Task" button
was enough, but it's usually not. :-(
Hall
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