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"Release early and often" is an open-source mantra, but it has anything but a calming effect on enterprise IT administrators more concerned with maintaining stability in their infrastructure than staying ...
- 03-30-2003 #1Linux Guru
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Red Hat Linux 9 Forces Stability Gamble
Full Story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,979046,00.asp"Release early and often" is an open-source mantra, but it has anything but a calming effect on enterprise IT administrators more concerned with maintaining stability in their infrastructure than staying on software's bleeding edge.
In a bid to court these enterprise customers without relinquishing its Linux leadership role, Red Hat Inc. has split its operating system offerings into enterprise and general-purpose lines, with the former focused on maintaining stability by sticking to a conservative upgrade path and the latter free to incorporate the latest and greatest of Linux.
On the general-purpose fast track, there will be no point upgrades—nor the stability they promise. Case in point is Red Hat Linux 9, the first update of the product since Version 8 was released just last September.
- 03-30-2003 #2Linux Engineer
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For a production machine I'd wait and see how things go in the next 6 to 9 months.
For on a test machine I'd try it and the incomming patches due out soon after it's release
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Dan
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Ill prolly upgarde my boxes in a week or two when the public access isos are out
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