[ale] Fedora grousing

[leam hall]

Ehh...errr....dang...

As much as I love RH, there's no real argument against this. It becomes a
choice of the lesser of two evils.






On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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/
>>
>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>> 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."
>>
>> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
>> CH:D 59
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