On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:33, A. Pagaltzis wrote: 
* Oliver Jones <oliver@deeper.co.nz> [2004-04-05 04:27]:
> True that have been a number of times when they have done
> things that break away from old behaviour but in general it has
> always been for the betterment of the OS in general.  I can
> live with change.  It makes for a more interesting ride.

As a developer, that's a most laudable stance. As an admin (whose
boxen are mission critical), it's almost irresponsible.

Well most of the boxes I admin are either before RHEL's time and have been running what they were installed with for a long long time (eg, RH7.1) or if they are a server and run RHEL or a desktop and run FC1 or RH9.

As a developer I also prefer a stable platform on which to deploy an application.  Hence our deployment platform for the apps we're currently writing (in Java) is RHEL 2.1 as that was what was available at the time of the decision.

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