Just read on article on slashdot today, which referred to why gentoo isn’t good for servers. I agree with that post, and here is what some people are missing:
When you have a server, you expect configuration file syntax to remain consistent. How regular, stable distributions do this, is we go through security patches and backport them to the stable version of the distribution. So the bug is fixed, but the program performed as expected. This is different than going from 1.2.33 to 1.3.0 because there may be slight differences in the way they behave, which may cause hours of end user hassle.
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#1 by doesitmatter on January 29, 2007 - 9:05 am
Yes, I don’t see why people will picking apart your previous post — after all, its title was “That’s what I call innovation”, and not “That’s what the world calls innovation” or “That’s what innovation usually means”. Clearly, you are free to call things by whatever words you want, after deciding for yourself that they are socially acceptable.
(On an unrelated note, your blog decides that if I don’t have JavaScript turned on, I didn’t pass math.)
#2 by Shane Falco on January 29, 2007 - 3:58 pm
The reason people flame you is because you’re generally clueless but pretend to speak from authority. You’re the wannabe techie that everyone tolerates but generally ignores. It’s just a shame we can’t filter you out of the blog syndications.
#3 by mindwarp on January 29, 2007 - 4:30 pm
Shane,
Oddly enough I don’t have a problem with your flame. Go figure.