On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 18:25:00 Indi wrote: > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did > > opine > > > > thusly: > > > You say OS X is "good enough" > > > I say you've got some mighty low standards. > > > > My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the same thing > > with SuSE and installed that goddamn piece of shit on 100+ boxes. > > > > Sure, it all looks neat after first install. Sybase ASE goes on and > > starts up real nice as do all sorts of other proprietary (and despoke) > > apps. Wait 6 months, try do a perfectly reasonable upgrade. Something > > easy like, say syslog-ng-1.6 to syslog-ng-3.x. Carnage. > > > > There's a certain mentality that goes with these New! Improved! Shiny! > > OSes and their magic sauce special apps. They only work if you use it > > exactly as the vendors thinks - which is necessarily an extremely narrow > > view. > > > > /etc ain't broke, I can't understand why SuSE insists on fixing it > > It's the desire to create something only you can fix, so you get users > over a barrel. Windows mentality...
If it weren't for SUSE and Fedora I wouldn't be running Gentoo for all these years ... ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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