Bleeding edge in terms of enterprise means something completely different then on a personal device. If they are running CentOS or Red Hat or Scientific Linux then they are a good step towards running a solid enterprise IT system, so good for them. In their case, beeing bleeding edge means testing available alpha and beta releases of those OSes as they emerge, instead of adopting a couple of years after a stable release.
On the other hand, for a personal device, being bleeding edge and keeping one's sanity at the same time means running Arch on a laptop. If the sanity requirement is omitted, one can go with Slackware. The danger is, one's head might overload with GNU/linux knowledge enough to spin and explode. Well... in any case, Fedora is for sissies. :) Anyway, seriously, Fedora isn't bleeding edge for more than a pre-alha to alpha period. Then it gets boringly stable. Which is a good thing if you need to have some actual work done. Being sane and bleeding edge at the same time is also running web2py from the trunk. I usually look at the last commits and sometimes skip an update or two, but most of the time I don't use anything else than trunk everywhere. Which probably means web2py's public releases could be a lot more frequent. Regards On Friday, August 8, 2014 2:34:33 AM UTC+2, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:43:57 AM UTC-7, Jim S wrote: >> >> Speaking as an employee of a modern agri-business company, using web2py, >> from the midwest, with windows xp a distant memory, I can tell you that >> your stereotypes are pretty far off. Seems to me there is a lot of tall >> corn right down in Illinois near where Massimo started web2py. >> >> -Jim >> >> > Well, if they are running Centos or RedHat, then they are a good step back > from the bleeding edge. But I'm not really in a position to toss pebbles; > I only retired my Ice Cream Sandwich phone this spring, my laptop is a 3 > year-old i5, and I use a Fedora 16 system as a key workstation. And since > I'm no good at maintaining heavy machinery, I use duct tape rather than > baling wire. No XP, though, and I have at least used W8.1 in the lab. > > (Not sure how edgy AIX/AS400 users are ... but I do remember the > commercials IBM put out a couple of Olympics ago.) > > /dps > > > > >> On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 2:35:50 AM UTC-5, Joe Barnhart wrote: >>> >>> I look forward to Massimo's improvements. >>> >>> One of the continuing thorns in my side is that a significant number of >>> my users are still on XP and IE8 -- about 15% -- and my users are in >>> California. I can only imagine the ratio would be higher in middle America >>> where the tall corn grows. I could choose to ignore these users, but they >>> have money to spend and I want to get it. >>> >>> As we move to more client-heavy designs, it means more javascript and >>> more chances that it won't run in antique computers. I can't leave 15% of >>> my revenue on the table. >>> >>> On the other hand, more and more of my users are on mobile platforms, >>> which fits perfectly with the heavy client approach. >>> >>> Arrrrgh! >>> >>> -- Joe >>> >>> >>> On Monday, June 9, 2014 5:01:39 AM UTC-7, Ramos wrote: >>>> >>>> what is the status of the evolution of web2py compared with other, >>>> mainly rails /or django ? >>>> >>>> >>>> which of these including web2py has gain more improvements over the >>>> last year? >>>> Does anybody knows? >>>> Is still web2py over the others? >>>> >>>> >>>> From the beginning Massimo used the phrase >>>> "Ideas we had , ideas we stole" >>>> >>>> I would like to know if Massimo is stealing more ideas from others. >>>> Also what new "Killer" ideas are we expecting for near future? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> António >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
