[CentOS] Statistics on stability?

Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 22:22:49 UTC 2006


On 7/24/06, Steve Huff <shuff at vecna.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
>
> > It is not a method for anything, nor an equation, it is just a
> > measurement. I don't pretend those facts to be a useful measure to
> > reasonably conclude anything. Of course you still need to take into
> > account several other measurements to fit into any theory...
>
> hm, perhaps "stable" is a poorly-chosen word, then.  the word
> "stable" is somewhat emotionally loaded among system administrators,
> and i suspect many people automatically think "stable==good", and so
> if their chosen distro performs poorly according to your "stability"
> metric, they may be inclined to attack your metric or you.
>
> my first thought was that your metric did not seem a particularly
> useful one; then i realized that if you were collecting it, you
> probably had some use for it, but it was difficult for me to get over
> the choice of word.
>
> -steve
>

I agree :)
Please let's s/stability/volume of updates/g and start it all over again :)
Cheers to all

-- 
Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina
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