On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:39 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:05, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on > > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience. > > You've got to be kidding me. I've run sid for about five years now and no way > in hell would I even think of considering using it for a production system. > This is the whole point of stable. > > If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are > one of > > 1. an idiot > 2. have very limited needs/no experience > 3. talking out of your ass > 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work > > I am getting really sick of people pushing sid for production use. Please > stop > doing it. I don't really care if it meets your needs. If it does, you are a > tiny minority; your experience with it in this capacity is anecdotal, and > none of it is likely to have any bearing on anyone else's needs.
So what do you think of those of us that *DO* use Sid + Experimental for Production? Careful what you say... I do have experience with Debian. No I am not an idiot, I have very UN-limited needs, I have been known to talk out of /dev/ass, have built very elaborate systems to ensure other's work Yes, I use Sid/Experimental for certain things. No not everything. I use Sarge for many other things, have for quite a while. Woody, I have no Woody machines. I understand Debian, how to manage those updates. Use sacrificial testing (as in a lesser powered, but identical in functionality) machines to test out any upgrades/updates. One other thing, if you have run Redhat anything... you were running a system comparable to Sid. I argue this, as seen with many of the same problems wrecking many a machines during a "upgrade/update/security update/etc..." Sid, from time to time has these same issues, but not to the extreme that those updates caused for the other Distro. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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