Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Mike Davis wrote:
one desire is supported stability. My number two desire is speed.
Maybe this philosophy comes from all of my years in unix world (21 and
counting), but the idea of standardizing on something that has the
limited longterm support of FC scares me. We regulalry run nodes for
years without reboot.
You do, of course, see the oxymoron inherent in this statement. You
regularly run nodes for years without a reboot. Hence after the nodes
are installed and stabilized (something that will almost certainly take
place during the period where FC is in fact well supported) support
becomes irrelevant, because the distro is stable and "just works".
Actually I don't think that its an oxymoron, though I have occasionally
had my behavior described as moronic. The fact that nodes run for more
than a year does not necessarily mean that we might not need to update
them from a supported distro at some point. It happens occasionally.
As an administrator of centrally operated clusters, I particularly don't
want to have to deal with an issue brought about by a problem on an OS
that is past it's support. It just isn't worth it to me technically or
politically.
Mike
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