Re: Centos 6 Update?

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/20/11 8:53 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
>
> The only sentiment picked up on was that of a loud, minuscule and
> irrelevant fraction of the user base from this and the -devel mailing
> lists.  He went with the loudest group of whiners he could find.

If he had wanted to be really critical he would have quoted project members 
suggesting that if people needed security fixes they should have their operators 
build their own untested versions or pay someone to do one-off builds for them.

> By the way, anyone that makes a business decision on what OS to use to
> support their business requirements based solely on the claims on a web
> page has other problems; as does the management team that went along
> with it.

Previously that decision might have been made on the basis of CentOS having a 
history of timely security updates.  Now you can't say that for any sane 
definition of timely.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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