Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I don't know about that. I'm running Guiness as my front end server
>for my little ISP, here. It serves up web pages, handles email (smtp,
>pop3 and imap) and lots of other gunk with nary a hiccup.
I think it all depends on what your production profile is.
>On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > Why do the "Bundles", e.g., Lotus Domino, IBM Small Business Server, etc.,
>> > all include RH 6.2 rather than RH 7.0?
>> >
>> >
>> This is a guess, but it is probably that they are waiting for the 7.x
>> series to stablize with the 2.4.x kernel. Right now, the 6.2
>> distribution is known to be stable, and fairly bug free. The 7.0
>> distribution does not offer enough advantage to be worth having to
>> support two distributions.
Also, supporting a new distribution with major changes to libraries,
compilers, kernels, etc., just plain takes time. If the goal of your
Linux distribution is to provide a platform for the application you
market, you will be extremely careful to run comprehensive QA tests.
It's much more important to provide a distribution that you are
confident will inter-operate with your product than to rush to provide
the latest whiz-bang features.
>> Do not be suprised if they jump from offering 6.2 to offering 7.2.
>> If the past trends continue, then 7.2 will be a production-ready
>> release. I have not used 7.0 enough to say, but from what I have read,
>> it is not production ready...
Aside from the usual quirks that show up in new distributions (and that
have mostly been fixed in errata), the main problems people seem to have
are with RedHat's choice of compiler. Some of the objections are based
on rumor and innuendo, and some are based on the fact that the new
compiler enforces standards better, so bad code that used to compile and
run now does not and needs to be fixed. (And some are legitimate bugs,
undoubtedly, but not more than for other versions of the compiler in other
distributions.)
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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