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Re: Patched sendmail? testing?



On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote:
> 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?

Redhat 6 has the latest whiz-bang Gnome and KDE, or did you just
forget to read?

-- 
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small
  minds discuss people.
          -- Laurence J. Peter



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