Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "bloviation".
2014 Dec 29
0
Design changes are done in Fedora
...istake if your system breaks badly enough due to an OS change that you can?t fix it within an iteration or two of your normal development process. The most likely mistake is staffing your team entirely with people who have never been through a platform shift before.
Again, this is not theoretical bloviation. The software system I?ve been working on for the past 2 decades has been through several of these platform changes. It started on x86 SVR4, migrated to Linux, bounced around several distros, and occasionally gets updated for whatever version of OS X or FreeBSD someone is toying with at the momen...
2014 Dec 29
5
Design changes are done in Fedora
On Mon, December 29, 2014 04:22, Ned Slider wrote:
> What business model do you have that you
> can't build around a product guaranteed to be consistent/supported for
> the next 10 years?
Well, despite the hype from Wall St., Bay St. and The City, a large number of
organisations in the world run on software that is decades old and cannot be
economically replaced. In many instances
2014 Dec 29
3
Design changes are done in Fedora
...king across a required OS update? Not to add functionality. To
keep something that was working running the way it was? And
separately, how much developer time would you expect to spend to
follow the changes and perhaps eventually make something work better?
> Again, this is not theoretical bloviation. The software system I?ve been working on for the past 2 decades has been through several of these platform changes. It started on x86 SVR4, migrated to Linux, bounced around several distros, and occasionally gets updated for whatever version of OS X or FreeBSD someone is toying with at the momen...