On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 18:34 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
As one who has to maintain a bunch of boxes and has to spend a lot of time devising atomated procedures and training non-admins who never the less have to do adminly stuff because I cannot always be available, every backwards incompatible change, every change in default behavior, every thing that breaks because of little or no testing prior to making it part of the official system costs me lots of time I and my employer and my customers would rather I be spending doing other new stuff rather than just playing keep-up-with-suse just to maintain what I already had.
(a) Turn off updates; just apply them at maintenance windows. There really is no need to "keep up" if things are working well. Test and deploy, don't deploy-as-test. (b) As someone who primarily admins CentOS [the most boring distro ever] and Windows servers.... get over it. This will *always* be true to some extent. Systems change, you need to adapt to those changes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org