[CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:06 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Benjamin Franz wrote:
> > On 06/14/2011 06:19 AM, m.roth at 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....
> <snip>
> > 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.
----
company I work for is 100% 'in-house developed software' - Ruby on Rails
in fact. Switching each box over to Ubuntu - no problems.

X on a server? Solid and stable?

Craig


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