On Wed, October 29, 2014 9:28 am, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 29.10.2014 um 15:22 schrieb Valeri Galtsev:
On Wed, October 29, 2014 9:06 am, Steve Clark wrote:
On 10/29/2014 10:02 AM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm running CentOS 6 (6.5 iirc) on my wife's machine, which I've been updating pretty much every day. Today yum got 425 packages!
Somewhere a dam must have broken. Sometimes some of us don't appreciate how much work the developers do.
Strength to their arms, and many heartfelt thanks!
+100
Me too. I was [mistakenly, apparently] always considering 5.[n+1], 6.[m+1] just re-spins, thus providing latest packages with _backported_ security patches/bugfixes, aimed at providing installation media that is not entail millions of updates. "Releases" with newer versions, drivers included in kernel shuffled, the new kernel (without any necessity in it) which causes hassle to reboot the box... This all effectively defeats the "Enterprise" portion of the name of the system, doesn't it?
if you think there is no necessity for the new kernel who is forcing you to reboot?
I like that "If" clause of yours... Basically, if one thinks he knows more than system vendor, he is just schizophrenic. And we, normal people, do give schizophrenics a privilege to be on their own. As we, normal people know that if the distro maintainers had to update kernel, they had a reason (otherwise, something else breaks). So, we are left running _this_ system, even though it's stressful, still not as stressful as running "bleeding edge" fedora, right? ;-)
Valeri
"enterprise OS" is nothing about never ever reboot, it's about API/ABI stability
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++