Re: Patched sendmail? testing?
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it
> > acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and
> > devlopment environment in it? Ancinet by modern standards.
>
> Heh... I never can quite figure out why people keep asserting that
> stable is too old for production systems. My servers are all running
> either woody (the current stable) or potato (the old stable (Oh my
> god! The software is three years old!)). Desktops are mostly RedHat
> 6 or so, with some potato, a very little woody, or X terminals
> connected to a potato server. I have yet to receive a single
> complaint from any of my users about the software being too old.
>
> While I can accept that there are some people who need the latest
> whiz-bang software to do their work, the vast majority of us don't.
>
You may have made my point for me :-)
Is the reason that you have RedHat dekstops to have more modern Gnome or
KDE packages?
I really don't want to get nto the rpm *^LL biz!
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neither liberty nor safety."
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