[ale] Fedora grousing

[Beddingfield, Allen]

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

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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.



--
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"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."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59
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