From: Philipp Thomas
To: abrahams@acm.org Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com; Joakim Schramm Subject: Re: [SLE] New SUSE version. Date: Wednesday, 16 February 2000 15:27 * Paul W. Abrahams (abrahams@valinet.com) [20000216 05:02]:
release). At least in a production environment it's 'never change a running system', as stability is by far more important than features.
Now that's what I call a principled and altruistic attitude. Clearly it's in SuSE's economic interest to have every user buy every new distribution.
Well, first of all keep in mind that primarily these are my private oppinions. And don't forget that SuSE also offers professional services
My main system has stood as 6.1, my play (Development) box has been updated to 6.3 this month with some protection by raid drives.(Linux used as example, I treat them all the same). It will stay as it for a time, such as in my case I use a statement of knowing what is going to crash it, or three months have passed without problems ( like winning the lotto). It then gets blown and rebuilt as pre-production ( mirroring production) Another month safe, then I swap production / preproduction for a month and then rebuild the new pre-production as a new build. It may use some 5 months to get a changeover (usually 8) but I rarely loose my live system. Until suppliers of operating systems trest them properly and across many hardware platforms and countries before releasing, I shall remain. I must say SuSE Linux is making me think of decreasing my cycle, M$ however make me more cautious. csijon ---------- like
consulting, business support and training, so the distribution isn't the only source of profit.
Philipp
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