On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 18:25:00 Indi wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did
> > opine
> > 
> > thusly:
> > > You say OS X is "good enough"
> > > I say you've got some mighty low standards.
> > 
> > My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the same thing
> > with SuSE and installed that goddamn piece of shit on 100+ boxes.
> > 
> > Sure, it all looks neat after first install. Sybase ASE goes on and
> > starts up real nice as do all sorts of other proprietary (and despoke)
> > apps. Wait 6 months, try do a perfectly reasonable upgrade. Something
> > easy like, say syslog-ng-1.6 to syslog-ng-3.x. Carnage.
> > 
> > There's a certain mentality that goes with these New! Improved! Shiny!
> > OSes and their magic sauce special apps. They only work if you use it
> > exactly as the vendors thinks - which is necessarily an extremely narrow
> > view.
> > 
> > /etc ain't broke, I can't understand why SuSE insists on fixing it
> 
> It's the desire to create something only you can fix, so you get users
> over a barrel. Windows mentality...

If it weren't for SUSE and Fedora I wouldn't be running Gentoo for all these 
years ...  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick