Preston, On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:14, Preston Crawford wrote:
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What a frustrating time to be a Linux user. All I want is what you want. A stable place to do web/application development.
And you've got it. Several, in fact. Web applications and Web services are what I do for a living, and I and my whole team (and most of my company's developer's) do so on Linux. Nearly all of our deployed services run on Linux. It is far more than stable enough. When something goes wrong in a production system, it's rarely the OS that's to blame. But if you want stability, you don't run the latest release (of anything, generally). Here at home, I stay up-to-date with everything that comes from SuSE (new releases, YOU updates, supplementary updates as well as things I install on my own, because I want to investigate or have a specific need). I have the latest and greatest, but it's sometimes a little rough around the edges. I curse it at times, but I did make the choice to operate not so far from that bleeding edge we hear so much about. At work things are radically different. We run a moldy old release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's frustrating to be using KDE 3.1, but it's very stable and predictable, which is more than I can say sometimes for KDE 3.4. And while I long for all the new features when I'm using my machine at work, I really, really dislike it when KMail crashes, which version 1.8 under SuSE Linux 9.3 does.
And that URL scares me to death (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14736.html). It certainly does make it look like SuSE is going the way of Fedora.
I don't really see how it can be otherwise, at least not at the price point for which we're now getting SuSE Linux Professional. Nonetheless, if you feel so strongly, talk to Novell.
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Preston
Randall Schulz