[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Wed Oct 6 12:59:37 CEST 2010

+
+Quote: Michael Scherer wrote on Wed, 06 October 2010 05:07
+> > Are you serious? Upgrading a server every 18 months?
+> 
+> I do. I even update them more often. And you would be surprised to see
+> that it doesn't create as much problem as you can think, if the
+> sysadmin
+> is competent enough.
+
+Well, obviously you have a lot of spare time...
+
+I guess you have never worked as a sysadmin in a company with thousands of
+servers.
+
+"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a basic sysadmin principle.
+
+There is a reason why any server OS company offers long support cycles:
+because the customers demand it!
+
+Apart from exceptions like yourself, upgrading servers is the lowest
+priority task in any company, it usually gets left until the last minute
+when support for a particular version is ending, and even then it's just
+seen as a necessary evil not a useful task.
+
+Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>
+> This is non-sensical; i will never choose Centos for a server, if i was
+> to
+> have a bug, where would i go with it???
+>
+> I don't want to have unnecessary risks for my server.
+
+I think you misunderstood me, I mentioned Centos because we are talking
+about Mageia here (which will hardly be used on servers in big companies),
+of course any company who can afford it, would use RHEL (or Suse), but
+ultimately Centos and RHEL are the same thing, that's what makes Centos so
+attractive for people who want stability for servers but don't have the
+money for RHEL support contracts.
+
+