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2014 Dec 29
0
Design changes are done in Fedora
...to the enterprise.
Tell that to Google.
What, you think they?re still building Linux boxes based on the same kernel 2.2 custom distro they were using when they started in the mid 1990s?
We don?t have to guess, they?ve told us how they coped:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/lcjp13_merlin.pdf
Check out the slide titled "How did that strategy of patching Red Hat 7.1 work out??
Read through the rest of it, for that matter.
If you come away from it with ?Yeah, that?s what I?m telling you, this is a hard problem!? you?re probably missing the point, which is that while your resou...
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
...e has
that luxury.
> What, you think they?re still building Linux boxes based on the same kernel 2.2 custom distro they were using when they started in the mid 1990s?
>
> We don?t have to guess, they?ve told us how they coped:
>
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/lcjp13_merlin.pdf
>
> Check out the slide titled "How did that strategy of patching Red Hat 7.1 work out??
>
> Read through the rest of it, for that matter.
>
> If you come away from it with ?Yeah, that?s what I?m telling you, this is a hard problem!? you?re probably missing the point, whi...