[ale] Fedora grousing

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

+1!


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> The whole "not up to date enough" garbage from web people makes me want to
> puke constantly.  I can't tell you how many times I get a web developer who
> has developed some site in PHP on the latest Ubuntu Ornery Orangatan or
> Pliable Platypus, or whatever the latest Ubuntu release of the minute is,
> with every PHP option installed and the latest bleeding edge version.  They
> try to get it to run on one of our SLES 11 or RHEL 6 servers, and it
> won't...  they don't understand that I can't just "upgrade to PHP
> 5.4.x"...yeah...5.3 with backported security updates is currently supported
> on this release - don't like it?  Take a hike.  Oh, and giving them dev
> space on a server with the same patch level doesn't help, because they
> can't possibly work within the confines of THAT old environment.
> The fact that so many web people think developing on a bleeding-edge
> workstation distro is a sane idea just throws fuel on the fire of my
> dislike for Ubuntu.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of James
> Sumners [james.sumners at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:37 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Fedora grousing
>
> I can't fathom why anyone would use Ubuntu for servers. If you don't
> need the, I have to admit, nice things that RHEL provides (once you
> pay enough), why wouldn't you be using Debian? If you're going to say
> "not up-to-date enough," well, you did say "Ubuntu LTS." That's just
> as stale at some point.
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:29 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Fedora is branching into it's own beast and losing any relevance to
> those of
> > us who like Red Hat. With the LTS option, Ubuntu is making itself worth a
> > look. From what I can tell, a lot of web based startups are preferring
> > Ubuntu to CentOS/RHEL. No one seems to like Fedora.
>
>
>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
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> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
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