On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:06 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 04/18/12 4:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
As I recall you weren't necessarily nice to anyone who suggested the process of building CentOS wasn't perfect. But now that it is, I guess that doesn't matter.
isn't that special. how passive aggressive of you.
I was mostly serious... While there is never an excuse for being rude on a public forum, and a warm/fuzzy community feeling is always a good thing, the community doesn't have much to do with the reasons to use or not use CentOS. Unless your system is completely disconnected from untrusted networks/users, what matters is whether you expect it to still work a few days after the next security flaw in the upstream code is publicized, protected by a simple 'yum update'. And I do expect that - now.
I'm always willing to answer even dumb/repeated questions politely if it happens to be something I know, but the people asking a lot of those questions would really be better off running SMEserver or ClearOS if those distributions weren't hopelessly out of date. If the CentOS team really wants to help beginners, one way would be to encourage respins that 'just work' in common configuration scenarios with simple management interfaces on top of the reliable code base.