Benjamin Franz wrote:
On 06/14/2011 06:19 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Timeliness, dunno. Ubuntu (or fedora) for production? NOT IF I HAVE ANY CONTROL!!! Given how many developers write incredibly fragile code, that is utterly dependent upon a very, very special environment, I guarantee that the almost daily updates will break it, or the New Features! will have changed interfaces....
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And AppArmor has yet to 'knee-cap' me like SELinux has (repeatedly) by breaking previously stable systems. Where I routinely disable SELinux on CentOS, I have yet to have AppArmor interfere with normal ops - ever. It "just works".
Ok... do you have in-house developed software? I've got one team that's using ruby on rails, and the other admin has to compile it from source, because they, I mean, just *have* to have the latest version, and another team has a customized version of some software that is either licensed, or open source, don't remember, that's all in java, and then there's the parallel processing programs....
But the first two, esp the first, are *incredibly* fragile, and I've seen that in other places I've worked. Then there was the grief I had on a box that's only used for offline backups on encrytped drives, and going from 10? 11? to 13 was a nightmare, and X wouldn't work until I got rid of gnome, and put KDE on....
I want solid and stable.
mark, http://xkcd.org/705