Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:53:41 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: starting with 2.7 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote: > >> You change some stuff. The bad mistakes are discovered very soon. >> Some subtler things or some things that occur only in special >> configurations or under special conditions or just with >> very low probability may not be noticed until much later. > > > Some of these subtle bugs are only discovered a year > after the distribution with some particular kernel has > been deployed - at which point the kernel has moved on > so far that the fix the distro does might no longer > apply (even in concept) to the upstream kernel... > > This is especially true when you are talking about really > big database servers and bugs that take weeks or months > to trigger. > There is a reason why people pay big bucks to Redhat (and others) for a five year contract to back port the bug fixes to the original kernel and software. Barring some huge change I need, I expect to run AS3.0 for four more years for one application, "learning experiences" are not a good thing.
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