[ale] Fedora grousing

Scott McBrien smcbrien at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 11:44:50 EDT 2013


Leam,

You better learn to love Fedora, because RHEL and Fedora are going to be in sync again real soon.  As soon as the next release of RHEL ;-)

-Scott

> On Oct 23, 2013, at 11:38 AM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +1!
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>>> 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.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> --
>>> James Sumners
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>>> 
>>> "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."
>>> 
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>> James P. Kinney III
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