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Re: Buggy 4.0 && unhappy user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Fri Oct 25 08:54:07 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:51:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, BORG wrote:
[...]
>To avoid the upgrade related problems and avoid being a beta tester,
>do not rush to get it after it's announced, especially if you (like me)
>are not a Linux guru. E.g. I haven't got 4.0 yet because I am watching
>this list, downloading updates and bug fixes and will upgrade when the
>flow of bug reports diminishes. I may sound cowardish but at least it's
>me who will not be sending messages with subjects like "Buggy 4.0 &&
>unhappy user" and so on. :)
It's this attitude that sets the professional system managers apart from
the amateurs. A good system manager *never* installs brand-new software,
no matter what claims are made by the vendor. A good system manager
waits until others have tried the product out and exposed the problems.
A good system manager tries to avoid exposing his users to problems
until he's aware of the problems they're going to have.
I was (and still am!) very excited when Red Hat released 4.0, but there
was no way I was going to move my 800 users to 4.0 before I got a good
feel for the problems it had. I've since decided that we'll stick with
3.0.3 at least until the next release of Red Hat Linux comes out, or until
4.0 stablizes if no further release is expected within the near future.
-S
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